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ID: 7005670
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005670
 
Record Type: physical
Hierarchy of Samoa Islands (island group)  Samoa Islands (island group)

Note: Inhabited by Austronesians of Lapita tradition as they moved into W Polynesia soon after 1300 BC; charted by Dutch 1722, by French Bougainville 1768; Britain, USA, & Germany struggled for area late 19th cen.; divided into Western Samoa & American Samoa.

Names:
Samoa Islands (preferred,C,O,English-P,U,N)
Samoa (C,V)
Navigators Islands (H,O)  ............ named by Bougainville 1768

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Oceania (continent)  ....  Oceania (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Samoa Islands (island group)  ........  Samoa Islands (island group) (P)

Place Types:
island group (preferred, C)
inhabited region (C)  ............  by 13th cen. BC

Sources and Contributors:
Navigators Islands..........  [VP]
...................................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1061
Samoa..........  [BHA]
..............  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
Samoa Islands..........  [VP Preferred]
..........................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) Pl. 122
..........................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1061
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) Pl. 122
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1061
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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