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The work of Placenames Australia researchers and their colleagues has resulted in articles published in various journals, both Australian and International. 

A selection of those articles appears below, from earliest first to most recent last.


William Metcalf ‘Process in placenaming Southeast Brisbane’ Papers – Brisbane History Group no 9 (1990), 93-101. [Available online]

Joshua Nash ‘Is toponymy necessary?’ Studies in Language vol 39, no 1 (2015), 229-234.

Jan Tent ‘Approaches to research in toponymy’ Names vol 63, no 2 (2015), 65-74.

Joshua Nash ‘Island placenaming and insular toponymies’ Names vol 63, no 3 (2015), 146-157.

Joshua Nash ‘Placenames and ecolinguistics: some considerations for toponymists’ Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik vol 40, no 1/2 (2015), 99-103.

Joshua Nash ‘On the possibility of Pidgin English toponyms in Pacific missions’ Historiographia Linguistica vol 42, no 1 (2015), 139-151.

Joshua Nash ‘Language contact and “the Catch”: Norfolk Island fishing ground names’ Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift – Norwegian Journal of Geography vol 70, no 1 (2016), 62-67. [Available from Routledge Informaworld]

Joshua Nash ‘Do island toponymies exist?’ Island Studies Journal vol 11, no 2 (2016), 339-342.

Joshua Nash ‘Cultural aspects of Norfolk Island toponymy’ Onomastica Canadiana vol 95, no 1/2 (2016), 23-49.

Jan Tent ‘The ghosts of Christmas (Island) Past: An examination of its early charting and naming’ Terrae Incognitae: the Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (2016), 1-23.
[Available from Taylor & Francis Online]

Jan Tent ‘Antecedent generics: How capes, lakes, mounts, and points are named in the Antipodes’ Names vol 64, no 3 (2016), 148-157. [Available from Taylor & Francis Online]

Joshua Nash ‘Linguistics, geography, and the potential of Australian island toponymies’ Australian Geographer vol 48 (2017). [Available from Taylor & Francis Online]

Jan Tent ‘Indigenous toponyms in the Antipodes: a gazetteer-based study’ Names vol 65, no 4 (2017), 204-214. [Available from Taylor & Francis Online]

Jan Tent and David Blair ‘A Clash of names: the terminological morass of a toponym class’ Names vol 66, no 1 (2018), 1-12. [Available from Taylor & Francis Online]

Jan Tent ‘What’s in a demonym? A note on a new and uplifting ethnonym.’ Names vol 66, no 2 (2018), 103-105.[Available from Taylor & Francis Online]

Jan Tent ‘The 1705 van Delft expedition to northern Australia: a toponymic perspective.’ International Journal of Cartography December 2019. [Available from Taylor & Francis Online]

David Blair and Jan Tent ‘A revised typology of place-naming.’ Names vol 69, no 4 (2021). [Available online]

Jan Tent ‘A namescape of the British Antarctic Territory.’ Journal of the English Place-Name Society vol 53, (2021), 43-64.

Jan Tent ‘Historic placenames as a source in identifying bygone faunal distributions: a double-edged sword.’ Frontiers of Biogeography vol 15, no 4 (2023).

Jan Tent ‘Conflicting aetiologies: the case of Dorre Island‘. The Globe no 95, (2024), 1-8.