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ID: 7006225
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7006225
Record Type:
physical
Yap (island)
Coordinates:
Lat: 09 30 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 9.5000
decimal degrees
Long: 138 09 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 138.1500
decimal degrees
Note:
One of the most fertile islands in the Caroline Islands; covered with hills; noted for remains of an early people who left stone platforms & large circular stones that served as money.
Names:
Yap
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Island of Stone Money
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Oceania
(continent) (
P
)
........
Federated States of Micronesia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Yap
(state) (
P
)
................
Yap
(island) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Oceania
(continent) (
P
)
........
Federated States of Micronesia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Yap
(state) (
P
)
................
Yap
(island group) (
P
)
....................
Yap
(island) (
P
)
Place Types:
island (
preferred
,
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Island of Stone Money..........
[
VP
]
......................................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1359
Yap..........
[
VP Preferred
]
...........
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
219
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
219
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1359
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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