Gazetteers and Useful Links

Gazetteer of Australia

• A copy can be obtained from Geoscience Australia; or




• it can be viewed interactivly at Geoscience Australia's 'Place Names Search' http://www.ga.gov.au/map/names/; or



• 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.

Australian Antarctic Territory

• Australian Antarctic Gazetteer
  http://aadc-maps.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/search_names.cfm

Australia & New Zealand Sites

• ACT Land Information Centre Place Names
  http://apps.actpla.act.gov.au/actlic/places/search/originsSearch_new.htm
  
  
• Queensland Place Names
  http://www.nrm.qld.gov.au/property/place_names.html
  
  
• New South Wales Geographical Names Register
  http://www.gnb.nsw.gov.au
  
  
• Victoria Place Names
  http://www.vicnames.vic.gov.au/dmb1/plsql/gnr.init
  
  
• South Australia Gazetteer
  http://www.placenames.sa.gov.au
  
  
• Western Australia Geographical Names
  http://www.dli.wa.gov.au/corporate.nsf/web/Western%20Australian%20Place%20Names%20
  and%20Addressing
  
  
• Northern Territory Geographical Names
  http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/placenames/index.jsp
  
  
• New Zealand Geographical Names Database
  http://www.linz.govt.nz/core/placenames/index.html
  
  
• Australian National Place Names Survey
  http://www.anps.mq.edu.au/
  
  
• Australian Maritime Gazetteer (MGA)
  http://www.hydro.gov.au/tools/mga/mga.htm

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Other Sites

• General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) - Names Of Undersea Features http://www.gebco.net/data_and_products/undersea_feature_names/
  
  
• Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) - Composit Gazetteer of Antarctica
  http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/
  
  
• United States Geological Survey (USGS) - Geographical Names Information System (GNIS)
  http://geonames.usgs.gov/index.html
  
  
• Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (CPCGN)
  http://geonames.NRCan.gc.ca
  
  
• UK Ordnance Survey
  http://www.ordnancesurvey.gov.uk
  
  
• ISO - Conversion of Written Languages
  http://www.elot.gr/tc46sc2/
  
  
• UNGEGN Working Group on Romanization Systems
  http://www.eki.ee/wgrs/

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