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ID: 1014154
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1014154
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Bonavista (inhabited place)  Bonavista (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 48 38 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 48.6333  decimal degrees
Long: 053 08 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -53.1333  decimal degrees

Note: John Cabot possibly landed at Cape Bonavista 1497; province's first school established 1726; today is a fishing port for cod & salmon; site of facilities for drying, filleting & cold storage of fish; linked by road & rail to Saint John's.

Names:
Bonavista (preferred,C,V,O)  ............ probably named by Portuguese explorer Gaspar Côrte-Real after one of the Cape Verde Islands, Boa Vista, ca. 1500

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Canada (nation)  ........  Canada (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Newfoundland and Labrador (province)  ............  Newfoundland and Labrador (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Bonavista (inhabited place)  ................  Bonavista (inhabited place) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Canada (nation)  ........  Canada (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Newfoundland and Labrador (province)  ............  Newfoundland and Labrador (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Newfoundland (island)  ................  Newfoundland (island) (P)
Hierarchy of Bonavista (inhabited place)  ....................  Bonavista (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  as early as 1500; is one of the oldest fishing stations on the island
town (C)
port (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Bonavista..........  [VP Preferred]
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 354
....................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -561447
....................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 31
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 354
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -561447
..................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 31
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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