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ID: 7002104
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002104
 
Record Type: physical
Hierarchy of New Britain (island)  New Britain (island)

Note: Site of early Melanesian settlements & Lapita pottery finds; highest point Mt. Sinewit, active volcano (last eruption May 1937); divided into two administrative provinces, East & West New Britain; principal towns Rabaul & Kimbe (provincial capitals).

Names:
New Britain (preferred,C,V,English-P)
Neu-Britannien (C,O)
ניו-בריטן (C,U,Hebrew )
Neu-Pommern (H,O)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Oceania (continent)  ....  Oceania (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Papua New Guinea (nation)  ........  Papua New Guinea (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of New Britain (island)  ............  New Britain (island) (P)

Place Types:
island (preferred, C)  ............  settled from around 2000 BC
protectorate (H)  ............  German, 1884-1949
mandate (H)  ............  Australian, 1949-1975
islands (C)

Sources and Contributors:
ניו-בריטן..........  [IMJ]
....................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Neu-Britannien..........  [VP]
.............................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Neu-Pommern..........  [VP]
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 828
New Britain..........  [IMJ Preferred, VP Preferred]
.......................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 138
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 828
Subject: .....  [IMJ, VP]
..................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 138
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 828
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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