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ID: 1001989
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1001989
Record Type:
administrative
Australian Capital Territory (territory)
Coordinates:
Lat: 35 30 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -35.5000
decimal degrees
Long: 149 00 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 149.0000
decimal degrees
Note:
Land was ceded from New South Wales in 1911 as site of national capital; bordered on all sides by New South Wales; half of workforce is employed by government; Parliament was opened by Duke of York in 1927.
Names:
Australian Capital Territory
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Canberra
(
C
,
V
)
AS01
(
C
,
V
,
FIPS
)
Commonwealth Territory
(
C
,
V
)
Yass-Canberra
(
C
,
V
)
Federal Capital Territory
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Oceania
(continent) (
P
)
........
Australia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Australian Capital Territory
(territory) (
P
)
Place Types:
territory (
preferred
,
C
)
............
created in 1911; Parliament opened in 1927
first level subdivision (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
AS01..........
[
VP
]
...........
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Australian Capital Territory..........
[
VP Preferred
]
...............................................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
45
...............................................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 29 January 2015
...............................................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
...............................................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
Plate 12
...............................................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
96
Canberra..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 29 January 2015
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Commonwealth Territory..........
[
VP
]
.........................................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Federal Capital Territory..........
[
VP
]
............................................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
............................................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
96
Yass-Canberra..........
[
VP
]
..........................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
45
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1556567
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
Plate 12
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
96
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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