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ID: 7022295
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Record Type: physical
Hierarchy of Appalachian Mountains (mountain system)  Appalachian Mountains (mountain system)

Coordinates:
Lat: 36 00 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 36.0000  decimal degrees
Long: 082 40 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -82.6667  decimal degrees

Note: Mountain system of eastern North America, extending from the Canadian provinces of Newfoundland, Quebec, and New Brunswick, southwest to Alabama state. The system includes the White Mountains, Green Mountains, the Catskills, the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Alleghenies, and the Cumberland Mountains.

Names:
Appalachian Mountains (preferred,C,V)
Appalachian System (C,V)
Appalachians (C,V)
Appalaches, Monts (C,V)
Apalaches (C,O)
Appalachen (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 Appalachian Mountains (mountain system)  ........  Appalachian Mountains (mountain system) (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 Appalachian Mountains (mountain system)  ............  Appalachian Mountains (mountain system) (P)

Place Types:
mountain system (preferred, C)
mountain range (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Apalaches..........  [VP]
....................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-8
Appalachen..........  [VP]
.......................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-8
Appalaches, Monts..........  [VP]
................................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-8
Appalachian Mountains..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
......................................  Cambridge Encyclopedia (1990)
......................................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) Plate 102
......................................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS37046162; GNIS42052897; GNIS45014961; GNIS47072345; GNIS50005624
......................................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 62
Appalachians..........  [VP]
.......................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS37046162; GNIS45014961; GNIS50005624
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 62
Appalachian System..........  [VP]
...................................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS37046162; GNIS45014961; GNIS50005624
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Cambridge Encyclopedia (1990)
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-8
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) Plate 102
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS37046162; GNIS42052897; GNIS45014961; GNIS47072345; GNIS50005624
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 62
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Getty Vocabulary Program rules

 

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