Australian Antarctic Place Names Gazetteer

Place name information for the Australian Antarctic Territory and the Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands is maintained by the Australian Antarctic Data Centre and the Secretary of the Australian Antarctic Division Place Names Committee. The gazetteer includes descriptive narratives, images, source information, and altitude data where available. Users can search by place name, region, feature type, latitude, or longitude.

Use Cases

• Map feature locations using latitude and longitude coordinates.
• Classify Antarctic features by feature type for geospatial analysis.
• Retrieve descriptive narratives and source information for place names.
• Visualize geographic points with altitude data where available.
• Filter place name records by region within the Australian Antarctic Territory.

Strengths

• Data is maintained by an official national Antarctic data centre and place names committee.
• Includes multiple data attributes per record: name, coordinates, feature type, narrative, and optional images and altitude.

Limitations

• Specific row count, temporal coverage, and completeness metrics for attributes like images are unknown.
• Geographic coverage is limited to areas under Australian jurisdiction in Antarctica.

Provenance

Source

Australian Antarctic Data Centre (AU_AADC) and the Secretary of the Australian Antarctic Division Place Names Committee.

Collection Method

Curated and maintained by an official place names committee.

Geography

Australian Antarctic Territory and the Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands.