adjective phrase

applied to a locality as part of its name, the a.p. is introduced in PS-RULEs LP3, LP4, & LP5 and described in more detail by PS-RULE LP6; the a. p. is found 1) in the native type phrase or 2) in the inverted locality name, just before the native type, as in “the Red Sea,” and “the Free Territory of Trieste,” and 3) before any relative position preceeding the locality name, as in “New South Wales,” and consists in a) possibly a title, before given names and possibly an epithet, as in “King Edward VII Land,” or b) a possessive, as in “Martin’s Cove,” c) a set of title, preposition and domain name, as in “Prince of Wales Island,”or d) either an adjective with a (attributive) noun, as in “Great Salt Lake,” or with another adjective, as in “New Siberian Island,” e) a surname, as in “Hoover Dam”