ANPS Query Form
The information you are seeking may be at one of the following websites:
The National Gazetteer, Geoscience Australia, National Mapping
Division
http://www.ga.gov.au/map/names/
Australian Capital Territory Land Information Centre
http://www.actpla.act.gov.au/actlic/places
Geographical Names Board of New South Wales
http://www.gnb.nsw.gov.au/name/search/
Placenames in the Northern Territory
http://www.placenames.nt.gov.au
Department of Natural Resources Queensland
http://www.nrw.qld.gov.au/property/placenames/
Place Names Online, South Australian State Gazetteer
http://www.placenames.sa.gov.au/
Nomenclature Board of Tasmania
http://www.dpiwe.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/themenodes/JGAY-53N55m?open
Names and Places in Western Australia, Department of Lands
Administration
http://www.dola.wa.gov.au/home.nsf/(framenames)/names
Victorian Place Names
http://www.services.land.vic.gov.au/vicnames/
Although the ANPS cannot guarantee you will find the correct answer, the information you are seeking may also be in one of the following published dictionaries of placenames, available at your local library:
Appleton, Richard and Barbara Appleton. The Cambridge Dictionary of Australian Places. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Blake, L. J. Place names of Victoria. Adelaide: Rigby, 1977.
Cockburn, Rodney. South Australia, what's in a name? Nomenclature of South Australia. Authoritative derivations of some 4000 historically significant place names: Ferguson, 1984 edition (first published 1908).
Department of the Environment, Land and Planning. Canberra's Suburb and Street Names. History, Origins and Meanings. Canberra: Australian Capital Territory Government Printer, 1992.
Kennedy, Brian and Barbara Kennedy. Australian Place Names. Sydney: ABC Books, 2006.
Manning, Geoffrey H. Manning's Place Names of South Australia. Adelaide: published by the author, printed and bound by Gillingham Printers, 1990.
Praite, Ronald, and John Clifford Tolley. Place Names of South Australia. Adelaide: Rigby, 1970.
Reed, Alexander Wycliff. Place Names of Australia. Chatswood, Sydney: A.W. Reed, part of William Heinemann Australia, 2nd ed., 1987.
Wajnryb, Ruth. Australian Place Name Stories. Melbourne: Lothian Books, 2006.
If you want to ask the ANPS some information about the history, origin and meaning of a particular placename, you can do so by emailing us the details. We suggest you tell us:
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the name of the place
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which type of place it is e.g., hill, river, town, suburb
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the state/territory in which the place is located
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any information you may already know about the history, origin and meaning of the place
Below you will find an example of a completed query structure for a place called Apple Tree Flat (NSW). You can look at this as a model for how to complete your email.
Email it to the Director; we will do our best to answer your query as soon as possible, using the sources currently available to us. Generally we are likely to respond within a fortnight.
[ Sample of Completed ANPS Query Form ]
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