Resources
Australia and NZ placenames websites
Australian Indigenous languages websites
International websites
Education resources
National Library of Australia - gazetteers of Australia and the world
Historical Association websites
Australian placenames - published lists and web searches
International placenames - published lists and web searches
Research Friends downloads
Australia and NZ placenames websites
We link you here to the naming authorities in Australia and New Zealand. These organisations have strongly supported the development of the ANPS and we are working in partnership with them to cover the cultural as well as the technical aspects of placenames.
Australian Capital
Territory Land Information Centre
http://www.actpla.act.gov.au/tools_resources/maps_land_survey/place_names/place_search
Geographical
Names Board of New South Wales
http://www.gnb.nsw.gov.au/name_search
Department of Planning
& Infrastructure (NT) - 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.dpipwe.tas.gov.au/nomenclature
Victorian Place Names
http://services.land.vic.gov.au/vicnames/
WA Placenames, Department
of Land Information
http://www.landgate.wa.gov.au/corporate.nsf/web/Western+Australian+Place+Names+and+Addressing
Land Information New
Zealand
http:///www.linz.govt.nz/placenames/
The Gazetteer of Australia
http://www.ga.gov.au/map/names/
Intergovernmental
Committee for Surveying and Mapping
http://www.icsm.gov.au/
Committee for
Geographical Names of Australasia
http://www.icsm.gov.au/icsm/cgna/index.html
Australian Antarctic
Division
http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/search_names.cfm
Department of Defence -
Australian Hydrographic Service
http://www.hydro.gov.au/
Department of Defence -
Defence Topographic Agency
http://www.defence.gov.au/digo/
Great Barrier Reef Marine
Park Authority
http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/
Australian Indigenous languages websites
One of the tasks of the ANPS will be to record the language of Indigenous placenames and, where possible, the language of placenames of Indigenous origin. The following websites are a good starting point for anyone interested in these placenames. However, research about the origin and meaning of these placenames requires linguistic and cultural expertise. It is an area of research in which the ANPS will co-operate with and be advised by Indigenous people and communities.
Australian Institute for
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/
Aboriginal Languages of
Australia
http://www.dnathan.com/VL/austLang.htm
Aboriginal place names
around Sydney Harbour
http://australianmuseum.net.au/Aboriginal-People-of-Coastal-Sydney
Languages of the World
Ethnologue
http://www.ethnologue.com/
FATSIL Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander Corporation of Languages
http://www.fatsil.org/
International websites
The links below are to placenames bodies in other English-speaking countries, each of which has been very supportive of the development of the ANPS and has provided the ANPS with advice and encouragement.
Canadian Geographical
Names
http://GeoNames.NRCan.gc.ca/index_e.php
Northern Ireland
Place-name Project
http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofLanguagesLiteraturesandPerformingArts/SubjectAreas/IrishandCelticStudies/Research/NorthernIrelandPlace-NameProject/
Scottish Place-name
Society
http://www.spns.org.uk
The American Name Society
http://www.wtsn.binghamton.edu/ANS/
United States Board on
Geographic Names
http://geonames.usgs.gov/
Several international journals deal with placenames (toponymy) as well as with general issues of names and naming (onomastics):
The journal ONOMA
http://poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?url=journal.php&code=ONO
The Canadian journal
Onomastica Canadia
http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/info/cssn_onomastica_e.php
Finally, the International Council of Onomastic Sciences website is a useful portal for names-related content:
The ICOS Website
http://www.icosweb.net//
Education resources
The Committee for Geographical Names of Australasia (CGNA) has produced a Teachers Lesson Pack, suitable for use in English, Science, Arts, and SOSE/Humanities classes:
What's in a Name?
http://www.icsm.gov.au/icsm/cgna/lesson/index.html
A brochure outlining placenaming practice in Australia and CGNA's role is also available online:
The CGNA Brochure
http://www.icsm.gov.au/icsm/cgna/CGNA_Brochure.pdf
An on-line course in toponymy, made available by the International Cartographic Association:
The ICA Toponymy Course
http://lazarus.elte.hu/~guszlev/toponymy/
National Library of Australia - gazetteers of Australia and the world
The link below is to a list of gazetteers maintained by staff in the mapping section of the National Library of Australia. The National Library provides a much longer, more comprehensive list of placenames websites than we have listed on our 'Resources' page. It also lists placenames books and dictionaries, published and unpublished gazetteers, which you can use at the National Library or perhaps find in a public library near where you live.
National Library of
Australia - Gazetteers
http://www.nla.gov.au/map/gazetteers.html
Historical Association websites
The Australian Council of
Professional Historians Associations Inc
http://www.historians.org.au/
Australian placenames - published lists and web searches
Placenames of South-East
Queensland (compiled by Ron Potter)
http://www.piulapublications.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=107&vmcchk=1&Itemid=107
Placenames on the Coast
of Victoria (compiled by Eric Bird)
VICcoastal.pdf
Australian Place Names
http://www.whitehat.com.au/Australia/History/PlaceNames.asp
Hornsby Shire (NSW) -
Street & Place Names
http://www.hornsby.nsw.gov.au/library/index.cfm?NavigationID=443
Hunter Valley (NSW)
Placenames
http://www1.newcastle.nsw.gov.au/library/place.cfm
South Australian
Placenames - State Library
http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/manning/pn
Placenames of Aboriginal
Origin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_place_names_of_Aboriginal_origin
International placenames - published lists and web searches
Geonames
http://www.geonames.org
Getty Thesaurus of
Geographic Names
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/
For current Research
Friends who want to make sure that they have an up-to-date Instruction
brief (in MS Word) for data entry:
Instructions.doc
There is an Information Pack available for anyone interested in becoming a Research Friend: ask the Director for a copy.
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