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ID: 1099626
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1099626

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Honiara (inhabited place)  Honiara (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 09 28 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -9.4667  decimal degrees
Long: 159 57 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 159.9500  decimal degrees

Note: Site of commemorative cross raised by MendaƱa in 1568, when he claimed Guadalcanal for Spain.

Names:
Honiara (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Oceania (continent)  ....  Oceania (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Solomon Islands (nation)  ........  Solomon Islands (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Honiara (special city)  ............  Honiara (special city) (P)
Hierarchy of Honiara (inhabited place)  ................  Honiara (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
town (C)
national capital (C)  ............  from post-WW II
port (C)

Related geographic places:
capital of ....  Solomon Islands .......... (nation)
..................  (World, Oceania) [1000233]

Sources and Contributors:
Honiara..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 85
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 85
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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