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ID: 7002091
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002091
Record Type:
administrative
Rabaul (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 04 13 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -4.2167
decimal degrees
Long: 152 11 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 152.1833
decimal degrees
Note:
Virtually surrounded by active & extinct volcanoes; was mostly destroyed by a volcanic eruption in May, 1937; was occupied by Japanese in January 1942; was bombed by Allies 1943-1945.
Names:
Rabaul
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Oceania
(continent) (
P
)
........
Papua New Guinea
(nation) (
P
)
............
East New Britain
(province) (
P
)
................
Rabaul
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1910
town (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
regional capital (
H
)
............
of German New Guinea, 1910-1920; of Australian mandate, 1920-1941
port (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Rabaul..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
161
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
999
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
161
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
999
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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