Sixth report of the United States Geographic Board: 1890 to 1932
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Abstract
This report contains, with the exception of a comparatively small number, all the decisions rendered by the board from its organization in 1890 through June, 1932, and supersedes all previous reports. Not included in this report are such decisions as have either been vacated, or, being revised, have been replaced by new decisions listed under the revised name or spelling.
Several thousand earlier decisions for features and places in the United States, Alaska, and the Philippine Islands have been amplified, brought up to date, and made to agree in form and content with the decisions rendered in recent years.
So great have been the changes since 1914 in the geographic nomenclature of the Eastern Hemisphere that the board deemed it advisable to vacate all the names as given in the fifth and earlier reports for places and features not within the United States and its outlying territories and possessions. In place of these a new list has been drawn up comprising some 2,500 of the more important names, which are in accord with the changes which have taken place since the World War. These new decisions, printed in 1932 in a separate pamphlet with the title, "First Report on Foreign Geographic Names," have been consolidated in this volume with domestic names in one alphabetical arrangement.
In the fifth report the Philippine and the Hawaiian names were each separately listed at the close of that volume. In the present report, however, they are interspersed alphabetically with other names.
The Board welcomes the views of map makers and of all others who are interested in geographic nomenclature as to how its decisions may be made of greater service.
| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Federal Government Series |
| Title | Sixth report of the United States Geographic Board: 1890 to 1932 |
| Series title | Report of the United States Geographic Board |
| Series number | 6 |
| Year Published | 1933 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office |
| Publisher location | Washington D.C. |
| Description | ix, 834 p. |
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