Australian Gazetteer of Over 300,000 Authorised Place Names

Over 300,000 place names covering Australia's mainland, external territories, and offshore areas up to the 3-mile marine limit. The Gazetteer of Australia is the authoritative source for location and spelling, compiled by Geoscience Australia on behalf of the Committee for Geographical Names in Australasia. Data is sourced from State and Territory jurisdictions and Australian Government agencies.

Use Cases

• Validate and standardize place name spelling based on the authoritative national gazetteer.
• Geocode locations across Australia and its territories based on the official place name list.
• Enrich maps and spatial datasets with official geographic identifiers mentioned in the description.
• Support jurisdictional analysis by integrating data sourced from state and federal agencies.

Strengths

• Contains over 300,000 place names as of the 2010 release.
• Compiled by the national authority Geoscience Australia on behalf of an intergovernmental committee.
• Sourced from all relevant State and Territory jurisdictions and multiple Australian Government agencies.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified; the core release referenced is from 2010.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia, on behalf of the Committee for Geographical Names in Australasia.

Collection Method

Compiled from data sourced from State/Territory jurisdictions and Australian Government agencies.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-17 00:02:56.325005; freshness should be verified

Geography

Australian mainland, external territories (except Antarctic Territory), and offshore areas to the 3-mile marine limit.