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ID: 6003039
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/6003039
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Kentish Knock (shoal)  Kentish Knock (shoal)

Coordinates:
Lat: 51 39 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 51.6500  decimal degrees
Long: 001 37 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -1.6167  decimal degrees

Note: Area off the coast of Kent and Essex. Site of the naval Battle of the Kentish Knock, or the Battle of the Zealand Approaches or Slag bij de Hoofden, fought between the fleets of the Dutch Republic and England on 8 October 1652 during First Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652-1654).

Names:
Kentish Knock (preferred,C,V,English-P,U)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United Kingdom (nation)  ........  United Kingdom (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of England (country)  ............  England (country) (P)
Hierarchy of Kentish Knock (shoal)  ................  Kentish Knock (shoal) (P)

Place Types:
shoal (preferred, C)
battlefield (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Kentish Knock..........  [VP Preferred]
..........................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..........................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..........................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 347
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2599835
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 347
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Oxford: English Place Names (1960)

 

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