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Geography - Placenames (Gazetteer)

Created 20/01/2026

Updated 20/01/2026

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The Gazetteer of Australia is the authoritative data source providing information on the location and spelling of approved place names on the Australian mainland extending to the 3 mile marine limit, together with its external territories, except the Australian Antarctic Territory. Contains all the authorised place names covering Australia's land and offshore areas. The 2010 release consists of over 300,000 place names. The Gazetteer is compiled by the Geospatial and Earth Monitoring Division of Geoscience Australia, on behalf of the Committee for Geographical Names in Australasia (a committee of the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping (ICSM)). Data is sourced from the relevant State and Territory jurisdictions (ACT, NSW, NT, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC, WA) along with various Australian Government agencies (Australian Antarctic Division, Australia Hydrographic Service, and Geoscience Australia).

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Field Value
Title Geography - Placenames (Gazetteer)
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/97ab7019-df1e-4f7a-a5cb-4fabde10d3c9
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 20/04/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        45.28,
        -88.5
      ],
      [
        170.0,
        -88.5
      ],
      [
        170.0,
        -9.14
      ],
      [
        45.28,
        -9.14
      ],
      [
        45.28,
        -88.5
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Geoscience Australia

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Geography - Placenames (Gazetteer)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/geography-placenames-gazetteer4