Gazetteer of Australia

The Gazetteer of Australia is a database of Australia's place names.

CGNA, with assistance from National Geographic Information Group, Geoscience Australia, has produced the Gazetteer of Australia 2010.

It contains place names derived from the:

• Official Register of Geographic Names / Gazetteers which are maintined by each Australian State and Territory
  
  
• Official offshore undersea feature gazetteer maintained by the Australian Hydrographic Service (Department of Defence)
  
  
• Official Antarctic place names gazetteer maintained by the Australian Antarctic Division
  
  
• Unofficial place names (eg homesteads) supplied by Geoscience Australia and other organisations involved with topographic mapping

More information about the source Registers/Gazetteers is obtainable by following the links on this page: Gazetteers and Other Useful Links.

Place name data is current to 2010.  The following documents and files can be downloaded to provide more information about the Gazetteer of Australia:

• Metadata
• Gazetteer of Australia - Product Details Page

The Gazetteer of Australia is also viewable on the Geoscience Australia 'Place Names Search' web page at: http://www.ga.gov.au/place-name/

It is also an integral part of Geoscience Australia's MapConnect.  This package allows you to preview, interrogate and download 1:250 000 scale topographic mapping over Australia.

CGNA has written an informative position paper on the role and functions of gazetteers: Gazetteer_Position_Paper.pdf

Queries about the Gazetteer of Australia should be made to: gazetteer@ga.gov.au.

ICSM would appreciate your comments about this product and suggestions for making the product more closely meet your specific requirements.

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