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ID: 1014375
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1014375
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Iqaluit (inhabited place)  Iqaluit (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 63 45 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 63.7500  decimal degrees
Long: 068 30 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -68.5000  decimal degrees

Names:
Iqaluit (preferred,C,V)  ............ since 1984
Frobisher Bay (H,V)  ............ from 1942 until 1984

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Canada (nation)  ........  Canada (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Nunavut (territory)  ............  Nunavut (territory) (P)
Hierarchy of Iqaluit (inhabited place)  ................  Iqaluit (inhabited place) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Canada (nation)  ........  Canada (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Nunavut (territory)  ............  Nunavut (territory) (P)
Hierarchy of Baffin Island (island)  ................  Baffin Island (island) (P)
Hierarchy of Iqaluit (inhabited place)  ....................  Iqaluit (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
capital (C)  ............  of Nunavut Territory, established April 1, 1999
defense installation (H)  ............  US air force base in 1942

Sources and Contributors:
Frobisher Bay..........  [VP]
..........................  Lonely Planet: Canada 467
..........................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 68
Iqaluit..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Lonely Planet: Canada 467
.................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1998-2000) accessed 10/29/98
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Lonely Planet: Canada 467
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1998-2000) accessed 10/29/98
..................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 68

 

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