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ID: 7018662
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7018662
Record Type:
administrative
Charlotte Amalie (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 18 22 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 18.3667
decimal degrees
Long: 064 56 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -64.9333
decimal degrees
Note:
City was center of Danish colonial life in West Indies; was important trading center for Confederacy during US Civil War; site of two 18th-cen. castles, presumably built by the pirates Bluebeard and Blackbeard.
Names:
Charlotte Amalie
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Charlotte Amalia
(
C
,
V
)
............
named for Danish queen, 17th cen.
St. Thomas
(
H
,
O
)
Saint Thomas
(
H
,
O
)
............
name used 1921-1937
Amalienborg
(
H
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Virgin Islands of the United States
(dependent state) (
P
)
............
Charlotte Amalie
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Virgin Islands of the United States
(dependent state) (
P
)
............
Saint Thomas
(island) (
P
)
................
Charlotte Amalie
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled by Danes in 1672
city (
C
)
capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Virgin Islands of the United States
.......... (dependent state)
..................
(World, North and Central America) [7005118]
Sources and Contributors:
Amalienborg..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 174
Charlotte Amalia..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 174
Charlotte Amalie..........
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
VP Preferred
]
.............................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.............................
Eagle Eye Maps, St. Thomas (1994)
.............................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
.............................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
42
.............................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Saint Thomas..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 174
St. Thomas..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
245
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 174
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Eagle Eye Maps, St. Thomas (1994)
..................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
42
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
245
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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