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ID: 1009572
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1009572
 
Record Type: physical
Hierarchy of Upolu (island)  Upolu (island)

Note: Second largest of Samoan Islands; volcanic and site of largest coconut plantation in S hemisphere at Mulifanua; Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson settled here in 1890, died in 1894 & was buried on Mt. Vaea, overlooking Apia.

Names:
Upolu (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Oceania (continent)  ....  Oceania (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Samoa (nation)  ........  Samoa (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Upolu (island)  ............  Upolu (island) (P)

Place Types:
island (preferred, C)
first level subdivision (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Upolu..........  [VP Preferred]
..............  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 677
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 1253
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 677
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 1253
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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