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ID: 1098800
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1098800
Record Type:
administrative
Nouméa (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 22 16 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -22.2667
decimal degrees
Long: 166 26 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 166.4333
decimal degrees
Note:
Was center for French penal colony 1864-1897; was major military base for Allies during WW II.
Names:
Nouméa
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Port de France
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Oceania
(continent) (
P
)
........
New Caledonia
(dependent state) (
P
)
............
South Province
(province) (
P,
U
)
................
Nouméa
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Oceania
(continent) (
P
)
........
New Caledonia
(dependent state) (
P
)
............
Nouvelle-Calédonie
(island) (
P
)
................
Nouméa
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1854
city (
C
)
capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
New Caledonia
.......... (dependent state)
..................
(World, Oceania) [1000223]
Sources and Contributors:
Nouméa..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 675
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
142
Port de France..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
468
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
468
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 675
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
142
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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