<descriptor thcode="1"><thesaurus thcode="1" name="Common geographic areas" scope="Names and identifiers of commonly-known geographic areas including oceans, continents, countries, states and provinces in North America, counties in the United States, USGS map quadrangles, and hydrologic units, nested and cross-referenced by overlap." creator="U.S. Geological Survey" rights="Public domain" edition="1.0" date="2002-03-21" codetype="alpha" prefix="geo" uri="http://www.usgs.gov/science/CommonGeographicAreas" tblname="geo" nonpref="geonp" relterm="geort" root_code="root" contact="pschweitzer"><category><term thcode="25" code="13" name="transitive" parent="12" scope="Narrower terms have an &quot;is a&quot; relationship with their broader terms, and generally can be described as part-of, type-of, or instance-of the broader term."/><term thcode="25" code="30" name="ambiguous labels" parent="26" scope="A given preferred label may be used for more than one concept in the thesaurus. A concept must be specified using its unique identifier (code). This may occur in the names of places or people."/><term thcode="25" code="4" name="place" parent="2" scope="Terms indicate extent in space, typically by reference as the names of geographic areas known from information that is stored elsewhere."/><term thcode="25" code="16" name="hierarchical" parent="11" scope="Substantive broader-narrower relationships exist among the terms."/><term thcode="25" code="13" name="transitive" parent="12" scope="Narrower terms have an &quot;is a&quot; relationship with their broader terms, and generally can be described as part-of, type-of, or instance-of the broader term."/><term thcode="25" code="30" name="ambiguous labels" parent="26" scope="A given preferred label may be used for more than one concept in the thesaurus. A concept must be specified using its unique identifier (code). This may occur in the names of places or people."/><term thcode="25" code="4" name="place" parent="2" scope="Terms indicate extent in space, typically by reference as the names of geographic areas known from information that is stored elsewhere."/><term thcode="25" code="16" name="hierarchical" parent="11" scope="Substantive broader-narrower relationships exist among the terms."/></category><altlabel><altlabel>Augmented FIPS 10-4 and FIPS 6-4</altlabel><altlabel>Augmented FIPS 10-4 and FIPS 6-4</altlabel><altlabel>CommonGeographicAreas</altlabel><altlabel>CommonGeographicAreas</altlabel></altlabel></thesaurus><term thcode="1" code="h17110003" name="San Juan Islands" parent="h171100" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h171100" name="Puget Sound" parent="h1711" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h1711" name="Puget Sound" parent="h17" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h17" name="Pacific Northwest" parent="hroot" scope="hydrologic region"/><term thcode="1" code="hroot" name="US hydrologic units" parent="fUS" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS" name="United States" parent="fLD10" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fLD10" name="North America" parent="fLD" scope="continent"/><term thcode="1" code="fLD" name="Land" parent="root" scope="continent"/><term thcode="1" code="root" name="Earth" scope="Common geographic areas focused on the US"/></bt><rt><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEB4" name="Blakely Island" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEC4" name="Cypress Island" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124SEC1" name="Deception Pass" parent="q49124SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEA3" name="Eastsound" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124SWH1" name="False Bay" parent="q49124SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NWH4" name="Friday Harbor" parent="q49124NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124SEB1" name="Lopez Pass" parent="q49124SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEB2" name="Lummi Bay Oe W" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEC3" name="Lummi Island" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEB3" name="Mount Constitution" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124SEA1" name="Richardson" parent="q49124SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NWG4" name="Roche Harbor" parent="q49124NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f53055" name="San Juan" parent="fUS53" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="p1338" name="San Juan Island National Historical Park" parent="p39" scope="National Historic Park"/><term thcode="1" code="p1956" name="San Juan Islands National Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEA4" name="Shaw Island" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124SEB2" name="Smith Island" parent="q49124SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NWG3" name="Stuart Island" parent="q49124NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEA2" name="Sucia Island" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NWH3" name="Waldron Island" parent="q49124NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>