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
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://apps.actpla.act.gov.au/actlic/places/search/originsSearch_new.htm
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.dpiwe.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/themenodes/JGAY-53N55m?open
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/core/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://aadc-maps.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://www.livingharbour.net/aboriginal/place_names.htm
Languages of the World Ethnologue
http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/search
Victorian Aboriginal Place Names
http://www.vaclang.ozhosting.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.st-andrews.ac.uk/institutes/sassi/spns/spnstop.htm
The American Name Society
http://www.wtsn.binghamton.edu/ANS/
United States Geological Survey Mapping Information: Geographic Names
Information System (GNIS)
http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=181:1:12798106357127065642
Several international journals deal with placenames (toponymy) as well as with general issues of names and naming (onomastics):
The journal ONOMA
http://poj.peeeters-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
Placenames of South-East Queensland (compiled by Ron Potter)
http://www.dovenetq.net.au/~piula/Placenames/Placenames%20index.htm
Placenames on the Coast of Victoria (compiled by Eric Bird)
VICcoastal.pdf
The items below are available for Research Friends to download:
Excel worksheets for data entry
DataForm.xls
Instruction brief (in MS Word) for data entry
Instruct.doc
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