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ID: 7020891
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7020891
Record Type:
physical
Superior, Lake (lake)
Coordinates:
Lat: 47 30 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 47.5000
decimal degrees
Long: 088 00 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -88.0000
decimal degrees
Note:
Serves as boundary between the United States and Canada; Ontario province, Canada bound on the north and east, on the south by Michigan and Wisconsin, on the west by Minnesota; northernmost and westernmost of Great Lakes.
Names:
Superior, Lake
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Lake Superior
(
C
,
V
,
display
)
Lac Superieur
(
C
,
V
)
Oberer Sea
(
C
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Superior, Lake
(lake) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Canada
(nation) (
P
)
............
Superior, Lake
(lake)
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Superior, Lake
(lake) (
P
)
Place Types:
lake (
preferred
,
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Lac Superieur..........
[
VP
]
..........................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS27021281
Lake Superior..........
[
BHA
]
..........................
Columbia Encyclopedia (1975)
..........................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Oberer Sea..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-126
Superior, Lake..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.............................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
.............................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
191
.............................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS26024243; GNIS27021281
.............................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1166
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Encyclopedia (1975)
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-126
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
191
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS26024243; GNIS27021281
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1166
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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