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ID: 7002100
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002100
Record Type:
physical
New Ireland (island)
Note:
Site of early Melanesian settlements & several Lapita pottery finds; Europeans arrived 1616 (LeMaire & Schouten); principal town is Kavieng.
Names:
New Ireland
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Neu-Irland
(
C
,
O
)
Meu-Mecklenburg
(
H
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Oceania
(continent) (
P
)
........
Papua New Guinea
(nation) (
P
)
............
New Ireland
(province) (
P
)
................
New Ireland
(island) (
P
)
Place Types:
island (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled since around 2000 BC
protectorate (
H
)
............
German, 1884-1949
mandate (
H
)
............
Australian, 1949-1975
occupied territory (
H
)
............
Japan, 1942
Sources and Contributors:
Meu-Mecklenburg..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
835
Neu-Irland..........
[
VP
]
.......................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
New Ireland..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
139
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
835
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
139
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
835
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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