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ID: 7020891
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7020891
 
Record Type: physical
Hierarchy of Superior, Lake (lake)  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:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Superior, Lake (lake)  ........  Superior, Lake (lake) (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 Superior, Lake (lake)  ............  Superior, Lake (lake)
 
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United States (nation)  ........  United States (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Superior, Lake (lake)  ............  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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