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ID: 7001867
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001867
Record Type:
administrative
Canberra (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 35 16 34 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -35.2760
decimal degrees
Long: 149 08 04 E
degrees minutes
Long: 149.1344
decimal degrees
Note:
Parliament transferred from Melbourne 1927 & opened by Duke of York; name derived from Aboriginal term for "meeting place"; site of High Court, university & painting gallery.
Names:
Canberra
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Canberry
(
H
,
V
)
Canbury
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Oceania
(continent) (
P
)
........
Australia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Australian Capital Territory
(territory) (
P
)
................
Canberra
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
indigenous inhabitants were Ngunnawal people; settled in 1824 by stockmen
city (
C
)
national capital (
C
)
............
since 1927, site was chosen in 1909
regional capital (
C
)
judicial center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
cultural center (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Australia
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, Oceania) [7000490]
Sources and Contributors:
Canberra..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
BHA, Authority file (1973-)
.................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
114
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 795
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
38
.................
Ward, correspondence (1998)
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
214
Canberry..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 795
Canbury..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 795
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
114
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 795
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1563952
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
38
..................
Ward, correspondence (1998)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
214
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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