ICSM - Education
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'What’s in a Name?' CD-Rom/Video

This resource highlights the significance of place names and the part they play in everyday life.  Starring Ernie Dingo, it tells the story of how places get their names.

Geographic Names Internet-based Teaching Package

This is an innovative Internet-based educational program to support the What’s in a name? CD-Rom/Video.  The activities and lessons are designed for primary school students and to promote the significance of place names in the community.

Glossary of Generic Place Name Terms

This glossary is a list of terms commonly used in Australia as part of a place name.  The list provides helpful definitions and allocates appropriate designator codes for recording in registers and gazetteers.

How Places are Named

This offers a brief description of the processes for naming places.

Gazetteer of Australia

The Gazetteer of Australia is a database of Australia’s place names - land.

Marine Gazetteer of Australia

The Gazetteer of Australia is a database of Australia’s place names - marine.

Australian Antarctic Gazetteer

The Gazetteer of Australia is a database of Australia’s place names - Antarctica.

Tidal Interface Compendium of Related Terms

The compendium lists and defines tidal terms used across Australia and New Zealand and gives the definitions for those terms.  In many areas similar or identical terms are used to describe different things and/or different terms are used to describe the same thing.

Terms include Highest Astronomical Tide, Mean High Water, Mean Seal Level etc.  There are two versions of the Compendium - an abridged version (top image) and the full version (bottom image).

Australian Tide Manual

This brings together a large number of existing sources of information on the measurement of tides and tidal currents.  It is intended to enable the reader to quickly find the most relevant and up-to-date information.

There are two versions of the Australian Tides Manual - in .html format (top image) and .pdf format (bottom image).