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ID: 7001895
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001895
Record Type:
administrative
Darwin (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 12 23 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -12.3833
decimal degrees
Long: 130 44 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 130.7333
decimal degrees
Note:
Settlement destroyed by hurricane 1879; now communications center & supply point for N Australia; headquarters Allied Army 1941-1945; bombed by Japan 1942; rebuilt after WW II; destroyed by cyclone Tracy 1974.
Names:
Darwin
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Palmerston
(
H
,
V
)
............
until 1911
Port Darwin
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Oceania
(continent) (
P
)
........
Australia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Northern Territory
(territory) (
P
)
................
Darwin
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1869
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Darwin..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
164
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
53
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
316
Palmerston..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
164
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 228
Port Darwin..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
164
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
164
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 228
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
53
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
316
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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