Links and Further Reading
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Australian Sites and Gazetteers
Links to websites of other Australian jurisdiction nomenclature authorities.
- ACT Planning & Land Authority
- Antarctic Names
- Australian National Placenames Survey
- Committee for Geographical Names in Australia (CGNA)
- Department of Natural Resources & Mines(Qld)
- Geographical Names Board of NSW
- Geographical Names Advisory Committee (SA)
- Nomenclature Board of Tasmania
- WA Geographical Names
- Victoria Place Names (VICNAMES)
International Sites and Gazetteers
Links to international nomenclature (place names) websites
- Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (CPCGN)
- New Zealand Place Names
- Ordnance Survey - OS Gazetteer - place names in the UK
- United States Board on Geographical Names
- UN Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) and associated information
Further Reading
The following publications and organisations may be able to provide further information on a particular place name.
- Northern Territory Dictionary of Biography, Vol 1, 2 or 3
- Northern Territory Times and Gazette ( a weekly published in Darwin between 1873 and 1928)
State reference Libraries may have microfilm copies - Northern Standard (a weekly published in Darwin between 1921 and 1953)
State reference Libraries may have microfilm copies - Appleton & Appleton; The Cambridge Dictionary of Australian Places, Cambridge University Press, 1992
- Feeken, Feeken & Spate The Discovery and Exploration of Australia, Thomas Nelson (Australia) Ltd, 1970
- Petrick, Jose: The History of Alice Springs through landmarks and street names, J Petrick, 1996
- Local and State Reference Libraries
- Genealogical Society of the Northern Territory (PO Box 37212, WINNELLIE NT 0821)
- Historical Society of the Northern Territory (PO Box 40544, CASUARINA NT 0811)
