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ID: 1006044
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1006044
Record Type:
physical
Kiritimati (atoll)
Coordinates:
Lat: 02 00 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 2.0000
decimal degrees
Long: 157 30 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -157.5000
decimal degrees
Note:
World's largest coral atoll; comprises half of the total area of the nation of Kiribati; was known to navigators since around 1650; was charted by British explorer Cook in 1777; occupied by Japanese 1942-1945; used as airbase.
Names:
Kiritimati
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Christmas Island
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Oceania
(continent) (
P
)
........
Kiribati
(nation) (
P
)
............
Kiritimati
(atoll) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Oceania
(continent) (
P
)
........
Kiribati
(nation) (
P
)
............
Line Islands
(island group) (
P
)
................
Kiritimati
(atoll) (
P
)
Place Types:
atoll (
preferred
,
C
)
annex (
H
)
............
of Britain, 1888-1892
colonial settlement (
H
)
............
part of Gilbert & Ellice Islands, 1919-1976
disputed territory (
H
)
............
British control disputed by US, 1936-1938
Sources and Contributors:
Christmas Island..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
46
Kiritimati..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
333
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
264
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
333
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
46
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
264
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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