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ID: 2503596
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2503596
Record Type:
administrative
Mead, Lake (reservoir)
Coordinates:
Lat: 36 00 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 36.0000
decimal degrees
Long: 114 44 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -114.7333
decimal degrees
Note:
Lake Mead is located in the Mojave Desert of Arizona and Nevada, 25 miles east of Las Vegas, Nevada. It is a reservoir of the Hoover Dam and one of the largest man-made lakes in the world, formed by damming the Colorado River.
Names:
Mead, Lake
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Lake Mead
(
C
,
V
,
display
)
Mead Lakes
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
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United States
(nation) (
P
)
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Mead, Lake
(reservoir) (
P
)
Place Types:
reservoir (
preferred
,
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Lake Mead..........
[
VP
]
....................
Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Mead, Lake..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS4014274
Mead Lakes..........
[
VP
]
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS4014274
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS4014274
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
accessed 27 February 2003
The J. Paul Getty Trust
© 2004 J. Paul Getty Trust
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