European question: Tyrol/Tirol

Guy Van de Poel Guy_VdP at t-online.de
Tue Jun 13 18:05:53 EDT 2000


Hi,

Another nice thing to have and use is MS Encarta World Atlas (yes I made
Billy richer than he already was), and I found 'Obergurgl' (without e) in
Tyrol - Austria at 46°52'N-11°01'E (60'=1°)
Tirol is indeed the correct spelling in German..

Guy.

-----Original Message-----
From: Pierre A Plauzoles <plauzolesp at bigvalley.net>
To: leps-l at lists.yale.edu <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Date: zaterdag 10 juni 2000 7:44
Subject: Re: European question: Tyrol/Tirol


>"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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