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ID: 7001954
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001954
Record Type:
administrative
Cooktown (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 15 28 13 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -15.4703
decimal degrees
Long: 145 15 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 145.2499
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on York Peninsula, N Queensland; trades with Papua New Guinea; site where Capt. Cook beached the Endeavour for repairs 1770.
Names:
Cooktown
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Oceania
(continent) (
P
)
........
Australia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Queensland
(state) (
P
)
................
Cooktown
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
port (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Cooktown..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
49
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
289
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1566915
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
49
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
289
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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