The Permanent Committee on Place Names (PCPN) created from the various
Australia
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n and
New Zealand
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committees on
geographical names.
The PCPN started in 1984 as the Committee for Geographical Names in Australia (CGNA) and it was renamed in 2005.
It was integrated within the
Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping
ANZLIC, or The Spatial Information Council, is the peak intergovernmental organisation providing leadership in the collection, management and use of spatial information in Australia and New Zealand.
It supports the establishment of a Spatial Da ...
(ICSM) in 1993. It is also associated with the Geospatial and Earth Monitoring Division of
Geoscience Australia.
It contributes to the
United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names
The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) is one of the nine expert groups of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and deals with the national and international standardization of geographical names. E ...
.
Annual meetings
Annual meetings followed at:-
*Bathurst (NSW) - 1985
*Adelaide - 1986
*Darwin - 1987
*Brisbane - 1988
*Hobart - 2010
*Adelaide - 2011
*Brisbane - 2012
*Canberra - 2013
Official authorities
The authorities that work on geographic names and are members of the committee, and the enabling legislation, are as follows:
* Australian Capital Territory - National Memorials Committee - ''National Memorials Ordinance 1928''
*New South Wales -
Geographical Names Board of New South Wales
The Geographical Names Board of New South Wales, a statutory authority of the Department of Customer Service in the Government of New South Wales, is the official body for naming and recording details of places and geographical names in the sta ...
- ''Geographical Names Act 1966''
*New Zealand Geographic Board Ng Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa
* Northern Territory - Place Names Committee for the Northern Territory - ''Place Names Act 1978''
* Queensland - The Department of Geographic information - ''Queensland Place Names Act 1988''
* South Australia - Geographical Names Board of South Australia - ''Geographical Names Act 1969''
* Tasmania - Nomenclature Board of Tasmania - ''Survey Co-ordination Act 1944'' amendments of 1955 and 1964
* Victoria - Place Names Committee - ''Survey Co-ordination (Place Names) Act 1965'', updated to ''Geographic Place Names Act 1998''
* Western Australia - Geographic Names Committee - ''Land Administration Act 1997'' (was originally the Nomenclature Advisory Committee, appointed in 1936 ); Western Australian Place Names and Addressing
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Additional members
* Antarctic Names Committee of Australia
* Australian Surveying and Land Information Group
* Department of Defence - Army
* Department of Defence - Navy
See also
* Gazetteer of Australia
*Suburbs and localities (Australia)
Suburbs and localities are the names of geographic subdivisions in Australia, used mainly for address purposes. The term locality is used in rural areas, while the term suburb is used in urban areas. Australian postcodes closely align with ...
* Surveying in Australia
References
Further reading
* Committee for Geographic Names in Australia (1989) ''Authorities and organizations involved with geographic names in Australia'' (The 1988 edition and compilation was the responsibility of Brian Goodchild - Secretary of the Geographic Names Committee - Department of Land Administration Perth, Western Australia.)
External links
*{{official website, https://www.icsm.gov.au/what-we-do/place-names
Names of places in Australia
Geography of New Zealand
Geocodes
Names of places in New Zealand
Geographical naming agencies