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ID: 7593844
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7593844
Record Type:
administrative
Cockburn Town (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 21 27 32 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 21.4590
decimal degrees
Long: 071 08 20 E
degrees minutes
Long: 71.1390
decimal degrees
Note:
Seat of government and first permanent settlement on any of the islands; founded in 1681 by salt collectors who arrived in the Turks and Caicos Islands
Names:
Cockburn Town
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Turks and Caicos Islands
(dependent state) (
P
)
............
Cockburn Town
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Turks and Caicos Islands
(dependent state) (
P
)
............
Grand Turk
(island) (
P
)
................
Cockburn Town
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1681
town (
C
)
capital (
C
)
............
since 1766
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Turks and Caicos Islands
.......... (dependent state)
..................
(World, North and Central America) [7004630]
Sources and Contributors:
Cockburn Town..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..........................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
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