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ID: 7005921
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005921
Record Type:
administrative
Pago Pago (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 14 16 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -14.2667
decimal degrees
Long: 170 43 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -170.7167
decimal degrees
Note:
Located at head of a densely wooded & steep-sided inlet forming a landlocked harbor; chosen as coaling station for US Navy in 1872.
Names:
Pago Pago
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Pangopango
(
H
,
V
)
Pango-Pango
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Oceania
(continent) (
P
)
........
American Samoa
(dependent state) (
P
)
............
Eastern District
(district) (
P,
U
)
................
Pago Pago
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Oceania
(continent) (
P
)
........
American Samoa
(dependent state) (
P
)
............
Eastern District
(district) (
P,
U
)
................
Tutuila
(island) (
P
)
....................
Pago Pago
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
village (
C
)
capital (
C
)
............
since 1899
port (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
American Samoa
.......... (dependent state)
..................
(World, Oceania) [7005667]
Sources and Contributors:
Pago Pago..........
[
VP Preferred
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 60
....................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
148
Pangopango..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
911
Pango-Pango..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 704
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 704
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 60
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
148
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
911
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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