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Previous Stories:
What's in a place name? - article by Greg Welsh
This originally appeared in Macquarie University News


The residents of Crows Nest in Queensland are currently divided over how their town got its name. Although it would appear to have come from the Aboriginal name for the site - 'Tookoogandannah' which translates as 'home of crows'
[Read more about What's In a Place Name]


Resources:
Guidelines for the Consistent Use of Place Names (Vers.1.0)
National Gazetteer of Australian Geographical Place Names, version 3
Guidelines for the Recording and Use of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Place Names (April 2001)
Glossary of Generic Terms (1996)
Watch the video "What's in a name?" starring Ernie Dingo.

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State and other gazetteers (name searches)
Link to all Australian state's (including the Australian Antarctic Division) and New Zealand's place name gazetteers and other related sites.
Geoscience Australia
The nation's leading geoscience research and information agency, responsible for producing and providing spatial information to the Australian community.

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