Gazetteer of Australia WFS

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

The Australian Gazetteer service provides authoritative information on the location, and spelling of approved place names. The Australian Gazetteer is a subset of information held by the relevant State, Territory and Commonwealth naming authorities. Additional authoritative information has also been sourced from the Australian Hydrographic Service, Australian Antarctic Division and Geoscience Australia.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title Gazetteer of Australia WFS
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/b8194c92-14f0-4606-ac03-561f0f54393a
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 20/04/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        45.0,
        -80.0
      ],
      [
        169.0,
        -80.0
      ],
      [
        169.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        45.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        45.0,
        -80.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Geoscience Australia

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Gazetteer of Australia WFS". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/gazetteer-of-australia-wfs