Lau Basin

back-arc basin in the Pacific Ocean
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Summary

Lau Basin is a back-arc basin[1]. It draws 24 Wikipedia views per month (back_arc_basin category, ranking #1 of 1).[2]

Key Facts

  • Lau Basin is in the country of Tonga[3].
  • Lau Basin is in the country of New Zealand[4].
  • Lau Basin's instance of is recorded as back-arc basin[5].
  • Lau Islands is named after Lau Basin[6].
  • Lau Basin's locator map image is recorded as Lau Basin-NOAA-Tectonic features hires.jpg[7].
  • Lau Basin's locator map image is recorded as Kermadec Arc.jpg[8].
  • Lau Basin's Commons category is recorded as Lau Basin[9].
  • Lau Basin's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': -20, 'lon': -177}[10].
  • Lau Basin's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0dgp5pd[11].
  • Lau Basin's GeoNames ID is recorded as 4032540[12].
  • Lau Basin's GNS Unique Feature ID is recorded as -2778172[13].
  • Lau Basin's Quora topic ID is recorded as Lau-Basin[14].
  • Lau Basin's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["UnderseaFeature", "LauBasin"][15].
  • Lau Basin's New Zealand Gazetteer place ID is recorded as 14153[16].
  • Lau Basin's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2777424304[17].
  • Lau Basin's OpenStreetMap node ID is recorded as 11054016282[18].

Body

Geography

Country listings include Tonga[3], a country[19], in Tonga[20], founded in 1970[21] and New Zealand[4], a Commonwealth realm[22], in New Zealand[23], founded in 1986[24].

Designation and Status

Lau Basin's instance of is recorded as back-arc basin[5].

History and Context

Lau Islands is named after Lau Basin[6].

Why It Matters

Lau Basin draws 24 Wikipedia views per month (back_arc_basin category, ranking #1 of 1).[2]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [19] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [21] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [22] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [23] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [24] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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