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ID: 7004782
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004782
Record Type:
physical
St. Martin (island)
Coordinates:
Lat: 18 05 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 18.0833
decimal degrees
Long: 063 05 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -63.0833
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in E West Indies; N section is a dependency of the French department of Guadeloupe, & S section is administered by the Netherlands Antilles; settled by French & Spanish 1640s; French & Dutch divided the island in 1648.
Names:
St. Martin
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Saint-Martin
(
C
,
V
)
Saint Martin
(
C
,
V
)
............
named by Columbus for saint whose feast was celebrated on the day of island's discovery in 1493
Sint Maarten
(
C
,
O
)
Sint-Maarten
(
C
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Leeward Islands
(island group) (
P
)
............
St. Martin
(island) (
P
)
Place Types:
island (
preferred
,
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Saint-Martin..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
]
.......................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
.......................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.......................
Églises de France (1966-1971)
III.c, 34
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Saint Martin..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 809
Sint Maarten..........
[
BHA
]
.......................
ISO Handbook (1982)
Sint-Maarten..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
356
St. Martin..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
171
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 809
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Églises de France (1966-1971)
III.c, 34
..................
ISO Handbook (1982)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
171
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
356
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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