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ID: 2621311
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2621311
Record Type:
physical
Roanoke River (river)
Coordinates:
Lat: 37 14 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 37.2333
decimal degrees
Long: 080 12 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -80.2000
decimal degrees
Note:
Runs through S Virginia & NE North Carolina, formed by confluence of forks in western Virginia & empties into Albemarle Sound.
Names:
Roanoke River
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Roanoke
(
C
,
V
)
Roanoake River
(
C
,
V
)
Staunton River
(
C
,
V
)
River of Death
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Roanoke River
(river) (
P
)
Place Types:
river (
preferred
,
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
River of Death..........
[
VP
]
.............................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS37025125
Roanoake River..........
[
VP
]
.............................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS37025125
Roanoke..........
[
VP
]
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1022
Roanoke River..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..........................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS37025125
Staunton River..........
[
VP
]
.............................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS37025125
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS37025125
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1022
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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