The Committee for Geographical Names in Australia (CGNA) was formed in Perth, Western Australia

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 in 1984 following the International Cartographic Association Conference. The committee was created from that meeting of the various Australia

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n and New Zealand

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 geographical names committees and Authorities attending the conference

The Committee (CGNA) was then 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

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Annual meetings

Annual meetings followed at:-

• Bathurst (NSW) - 1985
• Adelaide - 1986
• Darwin - 1987
• Brisbane - 1988

Official authorities

The name is given of the authorities that are members of the committee - and then the enabling legislation for the operation of the bodies that work on geographic names.

Australian Capital Territory

• National Memorials Committee - National Memorials Ordinance 1928

ACT Place Names Committee

New South Wales

• Geographical Names Board of New South Wales - Geographic Names Act 1966

http://www.gnb.nsw.gov.au/

Northern Territory

• Place Names Committee for the Northern Territory - Place names act 1978

Place Names Committee for the Northern Territory

Queensland

• The Department of Geographic information - Queensland Place Names Act 1988

Queensland place names

South Australia

• Geographical Names Board of South Australia - Act 101 1969

PlaceNames SA

Tasmania

• Nomenclature Board of Tasmania - Survey Co-ordination Act 1944 amendments of 1955 and 1964

The LIST

Victoria

• Place Names Committee - Survey Co-ordination (Place Names) Act 1965 (updated to Geographic Place Names Act 1998)

VICNAMES

Western Australia

• Geographic Names Committee - Land Administration Act 1997 (was originally the Nomenclature Advisory Committee, appointed in 1936 )

Western Australian Place Names and Addressing

Additional members

• Antarctic Names Committee of Australia

• Australian Surveying and Land Information Group

• Department of Defence - Army

• Department of Defence - Navy

External links

• Committee for Geographical Names in Australasia