Australia and NZ placenames websites
Australian Indigenous languages websites
International websites
Australian placenames - published lists and web searches
International placenames - published lists and web searches

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.

ACT: ACTmapi - Spatial Data Team, Australian Capital Territory Government

NSW: Geographical Names Board of New South Wales

NT: Land Information Search

QLD: Department of Natural Resources & Mines: Queensland place names search

SA: SA Property & Planning Atlas

TAS:

• Placenames Tasmania - Placenames search


• Land Information Systems Tasmania - ListMap

VIC: Land Victoria--VICNAMES

WA: Landgate--Western Australian Place Names and Addressing

NZ: Land Information New Zealand

AUST:

• The Composite Gazetteer of Australia


• Place Names Working Group


• Department of Defence - Australian Hydrographic Service: Maritime Gazetteer of Australia

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The following websites are a good starting point for anyone interested in Australia's Indigenous languages. These sites often include useful material about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander placenames.

Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

Aboriginal place names around Sydney Harbour

First Languages Australia

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The links below are to placenames bodies in other English-speaking countries, many of which have been very supportive of the development of the ANPS and have provided the ANPS with advice and encouragement.

Canadian Geographical Names Database

Canadian Society for the Study of Names

United Kingdom: Permanent Committee on Geographical Names

United Kingdom: Gazetteer of British Place Names

English Place Names Society

Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland

The Placenames Database of Ireland

Northern Ireland Place-name Project

Scottish Place-name Society

The American Name Society

United States Board on Geographic Names

Several international journals deal with placenames (toponymy) as well as with general issues of names and naming (onomastics):

The journal ONOMA

The Canadian journal Onomastica Canadiana

Finally, the International Council of Onomastic Sciences website is a useful portal for names-related content:

The ICOS Website

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Victorian Places

Dictionary of Sydney

Queensland Places

Placenames of Aboriginal Origin (Wikipedia page)

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United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names - list of searchable geographical names databases

Geonames

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online

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