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ID: 7014230
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014230
Record Type:
physical
Niagara Falls (waterfall)
Coordinates:
Lat: 43 04 58 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 43.0833
decimal degrees
Long: 079 03 57 W
degrees minutes
Long: -79.0667
decimal degrees
Note:
Cataract on the Niagara River; one of continent's most famous spectacles; falls are in 2 main parts (Horseshoe Falls and American Falls) separated by Goat Island.
Names:
Niagara Falls
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Chutes Niagara
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Niagara Falls
(waterfall) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Niagara Falls
(waterfall)
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Canada
(nation) (
P
)
............
Niagara Falls
(waterfall) (
P
)
Place Types:
waterfall (
preferred
,
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Chutes Niagara..........
[
VP
]
.............................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 24 November 2015
Niagara Falls..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
..........................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..........................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 672
..........................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 24 November 2015
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 672
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 24 November 2015
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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