TY - JOUR
T1 - Naming places on the 'Southland'
T2 - European place-naming practices from 1606 to 1803
AU - Tent, Jan
AU - Slatyer, Helen
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The history of charting Australia's coastline is well documented from most perspectives, but not from a toponymic standpoint. Between 1606 and 1803, some nine hundred European placenames were bestowed along the Australian coast. We report here on an investigation and analysis of the place-naming practices of the Dutch, French, and English along the Australian coastline between 1606 and 1803, and show how these names reflect the social and political attitudes and motivations of the name-givers.
AB - The history of charting Australia's coastline is well documented from most perspectives, but not from a toponymic standpoint. Between 1606 and 1803, some nine hundred European placenames were bestowed along the Australian coast. We report here on an investigation and analysis of the place-naming practices of the Dutch, French, and English along the Australian coastline between 1606 and 1803, and show how these names reflect the social and political attitudes and motivations of the name-givers.
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U2 - 10.1080/10314610802662995
DO - 10.1080/10314610802662995
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:68949103497
VL - 40
SP - 5
EP - 31
JO - Australian Historical Studies
JF - Australian Historical Studies
SN - 1031-461X
IS - 1
ER -