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ID: 7001977
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001977
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Perth (inhabited place)  Perth (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 31 57 08 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -31.9522  decimal degrees
Long: 115 51 41 E  degrees minutes   Long: 115.8614  decimal degrees

Note: Principal city of W Australia; exports agricultural products & minerals; developed rapidly following gold rush and opening nearby Fremantle Harbour in 1897; connected to transcontinental railway 1917; named for County Perth, Scotland.

Names:
Perth (preferred,C,V)  ............ for County Perth, Scotland, 19th cen.
Perth City (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Oceania (continent)  ....  Oceania (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Australia (nation)  ........  Australia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Western Australia (state)  ............  Western Australia (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Perth (inhabited place)  ................  Perth (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled 1829
city (C)  ............  established 1856
regional capital (C)
commercial center (C)
financial center (C)
transportation center (C)
university center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Perth..........  [BHA, FDA, VP Preferred]
..............  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 502
..............  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) 9: 314
..............  National Archives of Canada database (1987-) y
..............  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 152
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 943-944
Perth City..........  [VP]
.......................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject: .....  [BHA, FDA, VP]
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 502
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 314; 9: 314
..................  National Archives of Canada database (1987-) y
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1594675
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 152
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 943-944
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)

 

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