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ID: 7001911
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001911
Record Type:
administrative
Brisbane (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 27 28 16 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -27.4710
decimal degrees
Long: 153 01 27 E
degrees minutes
Long: 153.0243
decimal degrees
Note:
Founded as penal colony; agricultural trade center; arts center; industry includes chemical production, oil refineries & shipbuilding; named (1834) for Sir Thomas Brisbane, former governor of New South Wales.
Names:
Brisbane
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Edenglassie
(
H
,
O
)
............
to 1834
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Oceania
(continent) (
P
)
........
Australia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Queensland
(state) (
P
)
................
Brisbane
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1824
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
............
since 1859
port (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
university center (
C
)
penal settlement (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Brisbane..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
94
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 521-522
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
34
.................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
177
Edenglassie..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 521-522
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
94
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 521-522
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1561728
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
34
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
177
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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