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Descriptor English: South Australia
Descriptor Spanish: Australia del Sur
Descriptor Australia Meridional
Scope note: Estado en el sur de Australia central. Su capital es Adelaida. Probablemente fue visitada por vez primera por F. Thyssen en 1627. Descubrimientos posteriores en 1802 y 1830 abrieron la parte más al sur. Se convirtió en provincia británica en 1836, con este nombre autodescriptivo, y se convirtió en estado en 1901.
Descriptor Portuguese: Austrália do Sul
Descriptor French: Australie-Méridionale
Tree number(s): Z01.639.100.968
Z01.678.100.373.968
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013021
Scope note: A state in south central Australia. Its capital is Adelaide. It was probably first visited by F. Thyssen in 1627. Later discoveries in 1802 and 1830 opened up the southern part. It became a British province in 1836 with this self-descriptive name and became a state in 1901. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p1135)
Annotation: a state of Australia
Allowable Qualifiers: EH ethnology
EP epidemiology
Previous Indexing: Australia (1966-1987)
History Note: 88
DeCS ID: 23029
Unique ID: D013021
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Date Established: 1988/01/01
Date of Entry: 1987/03/09
Revision Date: 2015/06/23
South Australia - Preferred
Concept UI M0020184
Scope note A state in south central Australia. Its capital is Adelaide. It was probably first visited by F. Thyssen in 1627. Later discoveries in 1802 and 1830 opened up the southern part. It became a British province in 1836 with this self-descriptive name and became a state in 1901. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p1135)
Preferred term South Australia



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