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ID: 1019072
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1019072
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Kingstown (inhabited place)  Kingstown (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 13 12 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 13.2000  decimal degrees
Long: 061 14 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -61.2333  decimal degrees

Note: Located on SW coast at head of Kingstown Bay; main port of St. Vincent; site of oldest botanical garden in the W hemisphere, established 1763; the famous mutiny on the Bounty occurred when Captain Bligh sailed for breadfruit intended for this garden.

Names:
Kingstown (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (nation)  ........  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Saint George (parish (political))  ............  Saint George (parish (political)) (P)
Hierarchy of Kingstown (inhabited place)  ................  Kingstown (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 18th cen.
town (C)
national capital (C)
port (C)

Related geographic places:
capital of ....  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines .......... (nation)
..................  (World, North and Central America) [7004773]

Sources and Contributors:
Kingstown..........  [VP Preferred]
....................  Britannica Book of the Year (1992) VI, 879
....................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 480
....................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 99
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Britannica Book of the Year (1992) VI, 879
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 480
..................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 99
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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