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Occasional Papers

Papers of toponymic interest by researchers associated with the Survey are often too substantial to find their place within the pages of PA’s newsletter Placenames Australia. They are nevertheless of general interest and may indeed have been written as a response to issues raised in our newsletter.

(Clicking the ‘ANPS Occasional Paper’, the report will open as a pdf in a new window.)


Trunketabella: ‘pretty trinkets’? (December 2015), by Jeremy Steele

The early names of Australia’s coastal regions (May 2017), by Jan Tent

The naming of Irvingdale and Mt Irving (July 2018), by Diana Beal


The Cogie: the case of a conflated name? (September 2018), by Jan Tent

Placename dictionaries and dictionaries of places: an Australian perspective (January 2019), by Jan Tent

On the scent of Coogee? (April 2019), by Jan Tent


The uncertain origin of Brooklyn in the Antipodes (September 2019), by Jan Tent

Kangarooby: the case of a hybrid toponym (March 2020), by Jan Tent

The ‘Sugarloaf’ (April 2020), by Jan Tent


Landscape ontologies and placenaming (June 2020), by Jan Tent

A namescape of the Australian Antarctic Territory (April 2021), by Jan Tent

A dance of brolgas? The meaning of Taralga (March 2022), by Peter McInnes


Who named New Holland? (October 2022), by Jan Tent

Who named Groote Eylandt? (November 2022), by Jan Tent

A southeastern Dog Country (May 2023), by Jim Wafer and Tracey Howie


Who named the Gulf of Carpentaria? (September 2024), by Jan Tent