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ID: 1001991
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1001991
Record Type:
administrative
Coral Sea Islands (external territory)
Coordinates:
Lat: 17 30 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -17.5000
decimal degrees
Long: 151 00 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 151.0000
decimal degrees
Note:
Consists of several small, scattered, uninhabited islets, coral reefs, and cays in the South Pacific east of Queensland, Australia; charted by Capt. James Cook in 1770; noted for populations of seabirds.
Names:
Coral Sea Islands
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Coral Sea Islands Territory
(
C
,
V
)
CR
(
C
,
O
,
FIPS
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Oceania
(continent) (
P
)
........
Australia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Coral Sea Islands
(external territory) (
P
)
Place Types:
external territory (
preferred
,
C
)
............
Australian sovereignty officially recognized by Great Britain in 1968
primary political unit (
C
)
dependent political entity (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Coral Sea Islands..........
[
VP
]
................................
CIA, World Fact Book (2006-)
accessed 29 January 2015
................................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002)
accessed 04/07/99
................................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 29 January 2015
................................
NIMA, GNS ADM1 Codes (1999)
accessed 01/20/99
Coral Sea Islands Territory..........
[
VP Preferred
]
...............................................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
accessed 17 January 2007
...............................................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1998-2000)
accessed 04/07/99
...............................................
Rand McNally Atlas (1989)
I-41
...............................................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
290
CR..........
[
VP
]
...........
NIMA, GNS ADM1 Codes (1999)
accessed 01/20/99
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002)
accessed 04/07/99
..................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
accessed 17 January 2007
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 29 January 2015
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1998-2000)
accessed 04/07/99
..................
NIMA, GNS ADM1 Codes (1999)
accessed 01/20/99
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1989)
I-41
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
290
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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