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ID: 7002098
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002098
Record Type:
administrative
Lae (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 06 45 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -6.7500
decimal degrees
Long: 147 00 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 147.0000
decimal degrees
Note:
Occupied by Japanese in February 1942 & used as major supply point; bombed by Allies 1942-1943; retaken by Australia on September 16, 1943.
Names:
Lae
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Oceania
(continent) (
P
)
........
Papua New Guinea
(nation) (
P
)
............
Morobe
(province) (
P
)
................
Lae
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
regional capital (
H
)
............
of Trust Territory, 1941
Sources and Contributors:
Lae..........
[
VP Preferred
]
...........
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
107
...........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
640
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
107
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
640
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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