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ID: 1016462
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1016462
Record Type:
administrative
Roseau (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 15 18 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 15.3000
decimal degrees
Long: 061 23 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -61.3833
decimal degrees
Note:
Seaport located on the SW coast of the island, at mouth of Roseau River; burned by the French in 1805, & again badly damaged in hurricane of 1979; known for Catholic cathedral, Anglican church, & nearby waterfalls & thermal springs.
Names:
Roseau
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Charlotte Town
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Dominica
(nation) (
P
)
............
Saint George
(parish (political)) (
P
)
................
Roseau
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 18th cen.
city (
C
)
national capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Dominica
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, North and Central America) [7004641]
Sources and Contributors:
Charlotte Town..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
546
Roseau..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 183
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
167
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1030
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
546
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 183
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
167
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1030
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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