This page presents the geographical name data for Shortland’s Straits in Papua New Guinea, as supplied by the US military intelligence in electronic format, including the geographic coordinates and place name in various forms, latin, roman and native characters, and its location in its respective country's administrative division.
Full Name (see definition): Shortland’s Straits
Primary Country Code (see definition): PP (Papua New Guinea)
First-order administrative division code (see definition): 00 (Papua New Guinea (general) )
Region Font Code (see definition): 5 (Asia/Pacific)
Unique Feature Identifier (see definition): -2186460
Unique Name Identifier (see definition): -3044868
Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -6.666667
Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): 156.166667
Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 6° 40' 00" S
Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 156° 10' 00" E
Military Grid Reference System coordinates (see definition): 57MSN8671462200
Joint Operations Graphic reference (see definition): SB57-09
Feature Classification (see definition): H (Hydrographic type feature)
Feature Designation Code (see definition): STRT (strait)
Populated Place Classification (see definition): No data
Second-order administrative division code (see definition): No data
Population Figures (see definition): No data
Elevations (see definition): No data
Secondary Country Code (see definition): No data
Name Type (see definition): V (Variant or alternate name)
Language Code (see definition): No data
Substitute for full name (see definition): No data
Descriptive part of the full name (see definition): No data
A form of the full name that allows for alphabetical sorting of the file into gazetteer sequence (see definition): SHORTLANDSSTRAITS
Full Name with QWERTY characters (see definition): Shortland's Straits
Modify Date (see definition): 1994-01-06