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NALT Core

Preferred term

New Guinea

Type

Geographical

Definition

An island in the west Pacific Ocean divided into Irian Jaya (Indonesia) and Papua New Guinea (independent from 1975, formerly an United Nations trust territory).
Source: NAL Thesaurus Staff
Concept scheme: https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt
Type: Concept definition

Broader concept

Pacific Ocean Islands

Narrower concepts

Papua New Guinea

Related concepts

Synonyms

Dutch New Guinea
Irian Barat
Irian Jaya

Scope note

Use for works 1) referring to the period prior to 1975 when New Guinea was a political entity, 2) use for works of any time that relate to the island as a whole or 3) use for Irian Jaya.

In other languages

Nueva Guinea

Spanish

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/13935

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