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Descriptor English: New South Wales
Descriptor Spanish: Nueva Gales del Sur
Descriptor Nueva Gales del Sur
Scope note: Estado del sudeste de Australia. Su capital es Sidney. Fue descubierto por el Capitán Cook en 1770 y poblado inicialmente por marines y convictos que se asentaron en la Bahía Botany en 1788. El Capitán Cook lo denominó de esta forma porque su costa le recordaba el sur de Gales.
Descriptor Portuguese: New South Wales
Descriptor French: Nouvelle-Galles du Sud
Tree number(s): Z01.639.100.750
Z01.678.100.373.750
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009517
Scope note: A state in southeastern Australia. Its capital is Sydney. It was discovered by Captain Cook in 1770 and first settled at Botany Bay by marines and convicts in 1788. It was named by Captain Cook who thought its coastline resembled that of South Wales. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p840 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p377)
Annotation: a state of Australia
Allowable Qualifiers: EH ethnology
EP epidemiology
Previous Indexing: Australia (1966-1987)
History Note: 88
DeCS ID: 22952
Unique ID: D009517
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Date Established: 1988/01/01
Date of Entry: 1987/03/14
Revision Date: 2015/06/23
New South Wales - Preferred
Concept UI M0014797
Scope note A state in southeastern Australia. Its capital is Sydney. It was discovered by Captain Cook in 1770 and first settled at Botany Bay by marines and convicts in 1788. It was named by Captain Cook who thought its coastline resembled that of South Wales. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p840 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p377)
Preferred term New South Wales



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