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ID: 1048563
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1048563
Record Type:
administrative
Hammerfest (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 70 40 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 70.6667
decimal degrees
Long: 023 42 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 23.7000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on barren island off NW coast; noted as northernmost town in Europe; was heavily damaged in bombings by British navy in 1809; again destroyed by fire in 1890 & by German forces during WW II, but has since been rebuilt.
Names:
Hammerfest
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Norway
(nation) (
P
)
............
Troms og Finnmark
(county) (
P,
U
)
................
Hammerfest
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Norway
(nation) (
P
)
............
Troms og Finnmark
(county) (
P,
U
)
................
Kvaløya
(island) (
P
)
....................
Hammerfest
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
chartered in 1789
town (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Hammerfest..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-68
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-68
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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