Where in the world is...?
If you have the name of a city, river, or mountain and want to know where it is situated you need to use a gazetteer. A gazetteer is a list of names of places and features with their locations. To find a gazetteer in Library Search:
- Use a Keyword search
- Use gazetteer* as a word
Internet resources
- GeoNamesThe GeoNames geographical database covers all countries and contains over eleven million placenames that are available for download free of charge (Creative Commons Licence).
Books and eBooks
The Columbia gazetteer of the worldPublication Date: 1998
Chambers world gazetteer : an A-Z of geographical informationPublication Date: 1988
A guide to countries of the worldPublication Date: 2016
The Cambridge Dictionary of Australian PlacesPublication Date: 1993Here is the definitive listing of Australia's communities: the country's thousands of suburbs, towns and Local Government Areas.
Aboriginal placenames : naming and re-naming the Australian landscapePublication Date: 2009
