Permanent Committee on Place Names explained

The Permanent Committee on Place Names (PCPN) created from the various Australian and New Zealand committees on geographical names.^[1] 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 (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.

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:^[2]

• Australian Capital Territory - National Memorials Committee - National Memorials Ordinance 1928^[3]
• New South Wales - Geographical Names Board of New South Wales - Geographical Names Act 1966^{[4] [5]}
• New Zealand Geographic Board Ng Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa
• Northern Territory - Place Names Committee for the Northern Territory - Place Names Act 1978^[6]
• Queensland - The Department of Geographic information - Queensland Place Names Act 1988^[7]
• South Australia - Geographical Names Board of South Australia - Geographical Names Act 1969^[8]
• Tasmania - Nomenclature Board of Tasmania - Survey Co-ordination Act 1944 amendments of 1955 and 1964^[9]
• Victoria - Place Names Committee - Survey Co-ordination (Place Names) Act 1965, updated to Geographic Place Names Act 1998^{[10] [11]}
• Western Australia - Geographic Names Committee - Landgate - Land Administration Act 1997^[12] (was originally the Nomenclature Advisory Committee, appointed in 1936^[13]); Western Australian Place Names and Addressing^[14]

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)
• Surveying in Australia

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.)

Notes and References

1. https://www.icsm.gov.au/what-we-do/place-names ICSM: Place Names
2. Web site: CGNA members. CGNA. 26 August 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150924032635/http://www.icsm.gov.au/cgna/cgna_members.pdf. 24 September 2015. dead.
3. http://www.actpla.act.gov.au/tools_resources/maps_land_survey/place_names/place_names_committee ACT Place Names Committee
4. Web site: Geographical Names Act, 1966 (NSW). Australasian Legal Information Institute. 27 July 2015.
5. http://www.gnb.nsw.gov.au/ Home – Geographical Names Board of NSW
6. Web site: Place Names Committee for the Northern Territory . 2011-10-31 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111114175734/http://www.nt.gov.au/placenames/ . 2011-11-14 . dead .
7. http://www.derm.qld.gov.au/property/place_names.html Queensland place names
8. Web site: Geographical Names. Land Services Group. 28 July 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20140309050154/http://www.landservices.sa.gov.au/5Publications/Brochures_and_Fact_Sheets/_files/_Text_Versions/Brochure_Geographical_Names.htm. 9 March 2014. dead.
9. http://www.thelist.tas.gov.au/ The List
10. Web site: VICNAMES. Land.vic.gov.au. State of Victoria. 31 October 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20111019160409/http://services.land.vic.gov.au/vicnames/. 19 October 2011.
11. http://services.land.vic.gov.au/vicnames/ VICNAMES
12. Web site: Legislation that supports geographic naming procedures. Landgate. Landgate. 31 October 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20070901015032/http://www.landgate.wa.gov.au/corporate.nsf/web/Legislation+That+Supports+Geographic+Naming+Procedures. 1 September 2007.
13. Web site: Geographic Names Committee . Landgate . Landgate . 31 October 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130802165311/http://www.landgate.wa.gov.au/corporate.nsf/web/Geographic%2BNames%2BCommittee . 2 August 2013 .
14. http://www.landgate.wa.gov.au/corporate.nsf/web/Western+Australian+Place+Names+and+Addressing Geographic Names data – Landgate