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ID: 7002089
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002089
Record Type:
physical
Bougainville (island)
Note:
Largest of Solomon Islands group & part of Papua New Guinea; site of early Melanesian settlements & Lapita pottery finds; first sighted by Europeans 1768 (French Bougainville); site of numerous battles WW II.
Names:
Bougainville
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Oceania
(continent) (
P
)
........
Papua New Guinea
(nation) (
P
)
............
Bougainville
(autonomous region) (
P
)
................
Bougainville
(island) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Oceania
(continent) (
P
)
........
Solomon Islands
(island group) (
P
)
............
Bougainville
(island) (
P
)
Place Types:
island (
preferred
,
C
)
territory (
H
)
............
German, 1899-1914
mandate (
H
)
............
taken by Australia in WW I; included in Australian mandate, 1920-1975
occupied territory (
H
)
............
occupied by Japan, WW II; liberated by US Marines & Australia 1945
Sources and Contributors:
Bougainville..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
32
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
165-166
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
32
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
165-166
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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