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ID: 7006223
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7006223
Record Type:
physical
Pohnpei (island)
Coordinates:
Lat: 06 50 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 6.8333
decimal degrees
Long: 158 13 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 158.2167
decimal degrees
Note:
One of the largest islands in the central Pacific; surrounded by a barrier reef that encloses many small islands; fertile & hilly, it is settled on coast, but uninhabited in interior; noted for ruins of an early culture.
Names:
Pohnpei
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Ponape
(
H
,
V
)
Ascension
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Oceania
(continent) (
P
)
........
Federated States of Micronesia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Pohnpei
(state) (
P
)
................
Pohnpei
(island) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Oceania
(continent) (
P
)
........
Federated States of Micronesia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Pohnpei
(state) (
P
)
................
Senyavin Islands
(island group) (
P
)
....................
Pohnpei
(island) (
P
)
Place Types:
island (
preferred
,
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Ascension..........
[
VP
]
....................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
967
Pohnpei..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Rand McNally Atlas (1986)
174
Ponape..........
[
VP
]
.................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-137
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1986)
174
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-137
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
967
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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