Gazetteers
Gazetteers (geographical indexes or dictionaries) held in the Library collection can be found using Search. Try using the country and gazetteer? or geographical names as search terms in the keyword field, e.g. korea geographical names
Correct Mispronunciations of South Carolina Names by ISBN: 9781643360614Publication Date: 2020-01-23
A number of gazetteers are freely available on the web. Below is a selected list of these.
Australian digital and online gazetteers
- Maritime Gazetteer of AustraliaA database that can search all the place names used in Australia’s official navigational charts including Australia’s mainland, offshore territories, Antarctica, and Papua New Guinea.
- Place names search (Australia)Allows you to find and download place names information from Australia and its external territories.
- Place name search (Geographical Names Board of New South Wales)Allow you to search for a place name or geographic feature in the Geographical Name Register of NSW.
- Northern Territory Place Names RegisterNorthern Territory Department of Planning and Infrastructure
- VICNAMESThis database holds more than 200,000 road and place names, including landscape features such as mountains and rivers, bounded localities such as suburbs, towns, cities and regions, and physical infrastructure such as roads, reserves and schools.
- Boodjar Nyungar Placenames (Western Australia)Covering the general area south of Geraldton and west of Esperance and Nungarin; known to the Nyungar people, as Nyungar Boodjar
International gazetteers
- Gazetteer of British Place NamesProvides an exhaustive Place Name Index to Great Britain.
- GNISUSGS Mapping Information: Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). Links to U.S. domestic names, foreign names, Antarctic names and undersea features
- New Zealand Geographic Place-names DatabaseFrom LINZ. Also search Antarctic names, Undersea features and Māori names.
- Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature,International Astronomical Union