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ID: 1014387
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1014387
Record Type:
administrative
Rankin Inlet (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 62 45 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 62.7500
decimal degrees
Long: 092 10 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -92.1667
decimal degrees
Note:
E of Yellowknife; closing of mine 1962 led to economic decline; hamlet rejuvenated with such industries as fishing & Inuit crafts.
Names:
Rankin Inlet
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
O
)
Kangiqtiniq
(
C
,
U
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Canada
(nation) (
P
)
............
Nunavut
(territory) (
P
)
................
Rankin Inlet
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
established as mining center by N Rankin Nickel Mines 1955
village (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
communications center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Kangiqtiniq..........
[
VP
]
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-572004
Rankin Inlet..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Canadian Encyclopedia (1985)
III, 1547
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-572004
.......................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-143
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canadian Encyclopedia (1985)
III, 1547
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-572004
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-143
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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