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ID: 7002090
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002090
Record Type:
administrative
Port Moresby (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 09 30 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -9.5000
decimal degrees
Long: 147 07 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 147.1167
decimal degrees
Note:
Was sighted by Captain Moresby in 1873; gold was discovered here in 1878; British occupied site in 1883; was site of Allied army base in WW II, & was bombed repeatedly.
Names:
Port Moresby
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English-P
)
פורט מורסבי
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Oceania
(continent) (
P
)
........
Papua New Guinea
(nation) (
P
)
............
National Capital
(national district) (
P
)
................
Port Moresby
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
city (
C
)
national capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
financial center (
C
)
university center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Papua New Guinea
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, Oceania) [7006160]
Sources and Contributors:
פורט מורסבי..........
[
IMJ
]
.......................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Port Moresby..........
[
IMJ Preferred
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
516
.......................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
156
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
972
Subject:
.....
[
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
516
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
156
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
972
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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