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ID: 7019773
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7019773
Record Type:
physical
Aleutian Islands (island group)
Coordinates:
Lat: 56 23 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 56.3833
decimal degrees
Long: 131 19 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -131.3167
decimal degrees
Note:
Chain of small islands located off Alaska's S coast; Aleuts came from Alaskan mainland to islands around 2000 BC; there was internal warfare between Aleut tribes; Aleksey Chirikov charted islands in 1741; Russians exploited islands for fur.
Names:
Aleutian Islands
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Alëuten
(
C
,
V
)
Aleutianas, Islas
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Alaska
(state) (
P
)
................
Aleutians West
(national division) (
P
)
....................
Aleutian Islands
(island group) (
P
)
Place Types:
island group (
preferred
,
C
)
island (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Alëuten..........
[
VP
]
.................
Rand McNally Atlas (1991)
I-4
Aleutianas, Islas..........
[
VP
]
................................
Rand McNally Atlas (1991)
I-4
Aleutian Islands..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.............................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 20
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 239
.............................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS2000156; GNIS2000243
.............................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
30
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 20
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 239
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1991)
I-4
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS2000156; GNIS2000243
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
30
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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