European question: Tyrol/Tirol
Pierre A Plauzoles
plauzolesp at bigvalley.net
Sat Jun 10 00:04:58 EDT 2000
"Kondla, Norbert FOR:EX" wrote:
> Forgive my ignorance of European geography. This is from a 1950's data
> label - "Obergurgle, Tirol". Apologies for possible mispelling, but where is
> this ? I am guessing somewhere in the Alps, possibly the Austrian Alps ???
Hello.
This is from the National Imaging and Mapping Agency's Geographic Names System
website (http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/index.html), and the sort order is by
coordinatse:
NAME DESIG. LATITUDE LONGITUDE AREA UTM JOG NO.
Tyrol: see Tirol
RGN 47°00'00"N 11°00'00"E AU00 PT50 NL32-03
Tyrol: see Tirol, Bundesland
ADM1 47°15'00"N 11°20'00"E AU07 PT73 NL32-03
As you can see, "Tyrol" is both a region name and the name of an administrative
unit, possibly a province -- and your guess was very probably accurate: it does
sound like the Austrian Alps, possibly bordering on Italy. "Tirol" is probably
the correct spelling in German. My search used Austria as the country within
whose boundaries to search.
Pierre A Plauzoles
sphinxangelorum at bigfoot.com
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