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ID: 7001942
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001942
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Newcastle (inhabited place)  Newcastle (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 32 55 40 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -32.9278  decimal degrees
Long: 151 47 04 E  degrees minutes   Long: 151.7845  decimal degrees

Note: Originally a penal settlement, now a major industrial city specializing in iron & steel, shipbuilding, chemicals, & textiles; located at mouth of Hunter River; site of University of Newcastle.

Names:
Newcastle (preferred,C,V)
King's Town (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Oceania (continent)  ....  Oceania (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Australia (nation)  ........  Australia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of New South Wales (state)  ............  New South Wales (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Newcastle (inhabited place)  ................  Newcastle (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded 1804
city (C)
port (C)
industrial center (C)
penal settlement (H)

Sources and Contributors:
King's Town..........  [VP]
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 830
Newcastle..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
....................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
....................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
....................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 138
....................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
....................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 830
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1591316
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 138
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 830
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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