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ID: 1008735
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1008735
Record Type:
physical
Rarotonga (island)
Coordinates:
Lat: 21 14 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -21.2333
decimal degrees
Long: 159 46 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -159.7667
decimal degrees
Note:
Largest & most important of Cook Islands; volcanic; Avarua (regional capital) located on N coast; exports copra, oranges, bananas; claimed by Germany 1880-1889; annexed by Britain 1889; transferred to New Zealand 1901.
Names:
Rarotonga
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English-P
)
רארוטונגה
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Oceania
(continent) (
P
)
........
Cook Islands
(dependent state) (
P
)
............
Rarotonga
(island) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Oceania
(continent) (
P
)
........
Cook Islands
(dependent state) (
P
)
............
Lower Cook Islands
(island group) (
P
)
................
Rarotonga
(island) (
P
)
Place Types:
island (
preferred
,
C
)
inhabited place (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
רארוטונגה..........
[
IMJ
]
....................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Rarotonga..........
[
IMJ Preferred
,
VP Preferred
]
....................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
534
....................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
....................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
....................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
1004
Subject:
.....
[
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
534
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
1004
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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