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Buoys

Scope note

Moored, floating devices, employed as aids to mariners, marking navigable limits of channels and their fairways, or hazards such as sunken dangers, rocks, mines, torpedoe grounds or telegraph cables.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000262797

Broader Terms used

<equipment for transportation>

Equivalent Terms used

buoy

Created

13yrs ago

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