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Permanent Committee on Place Names
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<h2 id="annual-meetings">Annual meetings</h2> <p>Annual meetings followed at:- </p> <ul><li>Bathurst (NSW) - 1985</li> <li>Adelaide - 1986</li> <li>Darwin - 1987</li> <li>Brisbane - 1988</li> <li>Hobart - 2010</li> <li>Adelaide - 2011</li> <li>Brisbane - 2012</li> <li>Canberra - 2013</li></ul> <h2 id="official-authorities">Official authorities</h2> <p>The authorities that work on geographic names and are members of the committee, and the enabling legislation, are as follows:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p> <ul><li>Australian Capital Territory - National Memorials Committee - <i>National Memorials Ordinance 1928</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></li> <li>New South Wales - <a href="/facts/Geographical_Names_Board_of_New_South_Wales/Bz1ll5VD">Geographical Names Board of New South Wales</a> - <i>Geographical Names Act 1966</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/New_Zealand_Geographic_Board/pWAR3zmf">New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa</a></li> <li>Northern Territory - Place Names Committee for the Northern Territory - <i>Place Names Act 1978</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a></li> <li>Queensland - The Department of Geographic information - <i>Queensland Place Names Act 1988</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a></li> <li>South Australia - Geographical Names Board of South Australia - <i>Geographical Names Act 1969</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a></li> <li>Tasmania - Nomenclature Board of Tasmania - <i>Survey Co-ordination Act 1944</i> amendments of 1955 and 1964<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a></li> <li>Victoria - Place Names Committee - <i>Survey Co-ordination (Place Names) Act 1965</i>, updated to <i>Geographic Place Names Act 1998</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a></li> <li>Western Australia - <a href="/facts/Landgate/azVC4THg">Landgate</a> - <i>Land Administration Act 1997</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a> (originally, prior to the Land Administration Act the Nomenclature Advisory Committee, appointed in 1936<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a> ); Western Australian Place Names and Addressing<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="additional-members">Additional members</h2> <ul><li>Antarctic Names Committee of Australia</li> <li>Australian Surveying and Land Information Group</li> <li>Department of Defence - Army</li> <li>Department of Defence - Navy</li></ul> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Gazetteer_of_Australia/dm1ARDXj">Gazetteer of Australia</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Suburbs_and_localities_(Australia)/MJcfoL54">Suburbs and localities (Australia)</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Surveying_in_Australia/RFalyWrb">Surveying in Australia</a></li></ul> <h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2> <ul><li>Committee for Geographic Names in Australia (1989) <i>Authorities and organizations involved with geographic names in Australia</i> (The 1988 edition and compilation was the responsibility of Brian Goodchild - Secretary of the Geographic Names Committee - Department of Land Administration Perth, Western Australia.)</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://www.icsm.gov.au/what-we-do/place-names">Official website</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>ICSM: Place Names <a href="https://www.icsm.gov.au/what-we-do/place-names" target="_blank">https://www.icsm.gov.au/what-we-do/place-names</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"CGNA members" (PDF). CGNA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2015. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150924032635/http://www.icsm.gov.au/cgna/cgna_members.pdf" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20150924032635/http://www.icsm.gov.au/cgna/cgna_members.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>ACT Place Names Committee <a href="http://www.actpla.act.gov.au/tools_resources/maps_land_survey/place_names/place_names_committee" target="_blank">http://www.actpla.act.gov.au/tools_resources/maps_land_survey/place_names/place_names_committee</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Geographical Names Act, 1966 (NSW)". Australasian Legal Information Institute. Retrieved 27 July 2015. <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act//gna1966158/" target="_blank">http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act//gna1966158/</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Home – Geographical Names Board of NSW <a href="http://www.gnb.nsw.gov.au/" target="_blank">http://www.gnb.nsw.gov.au/</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"Place Names Committee for the Northern Territory". Archived from the original on 2011-11-14. Retrieved 2011-10-31. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111114175734/http://www.nt.gov.au/placenames/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20111114175734/http://www.nt.gov.au/placenames/</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Queensland place names Archived 2013-03-04 at the Wayback Machine <a href="http://www.derm.qld.gov.au/property/place_names.html" target="_blank">http://www.derm.qld.gov.au/property/place_names.html</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>"Geographical Names". Land Services Group. Archived from the original on 9 March 2014. Retrieved 28 July 2015. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140309050154/http://www.landservices.sa.gov.au/5Publications/Brochures_and_Fact_Sheets/_files/_Text_Versions/Brochure_Geographical_Names.htm" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20140309050154/http://www.landservices.sa.gov.au/5Publications/Brochures_and_Fact_Sheets/_files/_Text_Versions/Brochure_Geographical_Names.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>The List <a href="http://www.thelist.tas.gov.au/" target="_blank">http://www.thelist.tas.gov.au/</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>"VICNAMES". Land.vic.gov.au. State of Victoria. Archived from the original on 19 October 2011. Retrieved 31 October 2011. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111019160409/http://services.land.vic.gov.au/vicnames/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20111019160409/http://services.land.vic.gov.au/vicnames/</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>VICNAMES Archived 2011-10-19 at the Wayback Machine <a href="http://services.land.vic.gov.au/vicnames/" target="_blank">http://services.land.vic.gov.au/vicnames/</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>"Legislation that supports geographic naming procedures". Landgate. Landgate. Archived from the original on 1 September 2007. Retrieved 31 October 2011. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070901015032/http://www.landgate.wa.gov.au/corporate.nsf/web/Legislation+That+Supports+Geographic+Naming+Procedures" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20070901015032/http://www.landgate.wa.gov.au/corporate.nsf/web/Legislation+That+Supports+Geographic+Naming+Procedures</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>"Geographic Names Committee". Landgate. Landgate. Archived from the original on 2 August 2013. Retrieved 31 October 2011. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130802165311/http://www.landgate.wa.gov.au/corporate.nsf/web/Geographic%2BNames%2BCommittee" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20130802165311/http://www.landgate.wa.gov.au/corporate.nsf/web/Geographic%2BNames%2BCommittee</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:14"><p>Geographic Names data – Landgate <a href="http://www.landgate.wa.gov.au/corporate.nsf/web/Western+Australian+Place+Names+and+Addressing" target="_blank">http://www.landgate.wa.gov.au/corporate.nsf/web/Western+Australian+Place+Names+and+Addressing</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>