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ID: 1114875
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1114875
 
Record Type: physical
Hierarchy of Drake Passage (passage)  Drake Passage (passage)

Coordinates:
Lat: 60 00 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -60.0000  decimal degrees
Long: 060 00 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -60.0000  decimal degrees

Note: Located between Cape Horn and South Shetland Island; links southern Atlantic Ocean and southern Pacific Ocean.

Names:
Drake Passage (preferred,C,O)
Canal de Drake (C,V)
Estrecho de Drake (C,V)
Pasaje Drake (C,V)
Drake Strait (C,V)
Drake Straits (C,V)
Pasaje de Hoces (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Oceans (miscellaneous)  ....  Oceans (miscellaneous) (P)
Hierarchy of Drake Passage (passage)  ........  Drake Passage (passage) (P)

Place Types:
passage (preferred, C)

Sources and Contributors:
Canal de Drake..........  [VP]
.............................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 9 November 2015
Drake Passage..........  [VP Preferred]
..........................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 9 November 2015
..........................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) plate 123
..........................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 343
Drake Strait..........  [VP]
.......................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 9 November 2015
Drake Straits..........  [VP]
..........................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 9 November 2015
Estrecho de Drake..........  [VP]
................................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 9 November 2015
Pasaje de Hoces..........  [VP]
.............................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 9 November 2015
Pasaje Drake..........  [VP]
.......................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 9 November 2015
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 9 November 2015
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) plate 123
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 343
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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