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ID: 7030351
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7030351
Record Type:
physical
Manhattan Island (island)
Coordinates:
Lat: 40 47 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 40.7833
decimal degrees
Long: 073 58 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -73.9667
decimal degrees
Note:
Located between the Hudson River and New York Bay; the first European to sight the island was Giovanni da Verrazano in 1524. The island was bought by the Dutch West India Company from the Native American Wappinger Confederacy in1626.
Names:
Manhattan Island
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
from the Algonquian term meaning 'island of hills'
Manhattan
(
C
,
V
)
Eyland Manatus
(
H
,
V
)
Manatus
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
New York
(state) (
P
)
................
New York
(county) (
P
)
....................
Manhattan Island
(island) (
P,
C
)
the borough and the county are coextensive
Place Types:
island (
preferred
,
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Eyland Manatus..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Antique Maps (1996)
Manatus..........
[
VP
]
.................
Antique Maps (1996)
Manhattan..........
[
VP
]
....................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
accessed 5 September 2002
....................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS36034179
Manhattan Island..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.............................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 562
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Antique Maps (1996)
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
2:562; II, 562
..................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
accessed 5 September 2002
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS36034179
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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