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ID: 7013298
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013298
Record Type:
administrative
Anchorage (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 61 13 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 61.2167
decimal degrees
Long: 149 54 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -149.9000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Cook Inlet in S Alaska; largest city in state; developed rapidly during WW II as an air & defense base for entire Alaskan area; in 1964 an earthquake caused city severe damage; oil & natural gas industries support economy.
Names:
Anchorage
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Alaska
(state) (
P
)
................
Anchorage
(national division) (
P
)
....................
Anchorage
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1915 as construction headquarters of Alaska Railroad to Fairbanks
city (
C
)
............
incorporated in 1920
port (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
............
especially for petrochemical industries
commercial center (
C
)
fish-processing center (
C
)
............
for salmon canneries
tourist center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
............
houses Alaska Methodist University & Anchorage Community College
Sources and Contributors:
Anchorage..........
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
VP Preferred
]
....................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
1:31
....................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
1:378
....................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
....................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS2001123
....................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
....................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
47
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 31; 1:31
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 378; 1:378
..................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS2001123
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
47
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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