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ID: 7013127
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013127
Record Type:
administrative
Sudbury (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 46 30 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 46.5000
decimal degrees
Long: 081 01 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -81.0167
decimal degrees
Note:
SE Ontario; located on Ramsey Lake; named after Sudbury, England; nickel, copper, gold, silver, platinum, cobalt, sulfur, and iron ore are mined.
Names:
Sudbury
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Canada
(nation) (
P
)
............
Ontario
(province) (
P
)
................
Sudbury
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
grew with the discovery of copper- & nickel-bearing ores in 1883; incorporated as a town in 1893
city (
C
)
............
incorporated 1930
mining center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
............
Laurentian University established 1960
Sources and Contributors:
Sudbury..........
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 350-351
.................
National Archives of Canada database (1987-)
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-574311
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
190
.................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 350-351
..................
National Archives of Canada database (1987-)
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-574311
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
190
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
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