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ID: 7001933
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001933
Record Type:
administrative
Melbourne (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 37 48 50 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -37.8139
decimal degrees
Long: 144 57 48 E
degrees minutes
Long: 144.9634
decimal degrees
Note:
World's most southerly urban area greater than 1 million population; Australia's largest cargo port; founded by Tasmanian settlers; center of gold rush 1850s; site of Summer Olympic Games 1956.
Names:
Melbourne
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English-P
)
............
for British prime minister Lord Melbourne
מלבורן
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Oceania
(continent) (
P
)
........
Australia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Victoria
(state) (
P
)
................
Melbourne
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1835
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
............
since 1851
port (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
financial center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
university center (
C
)
national capital (
H
)
............
temporary capital 1901-1927
Sources and Contributors:
מלבורן..........
[
IMJ
]
.................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Melbourne..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
IMJ Preferred
,
VP Preferred
]
....................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
405
....................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 1028
....................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
....................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
....................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
125
....................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
....................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
748
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
405
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 1028
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008)
accessed 13 February 2007
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1586844
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
125
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
748
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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