Insular toponymies: Pristine place-naming on Norfolk Island, South Pacific and Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island, South Australia

Title
Insular toponymies: Pristine place-naming on Norfolk Island, South Pacific and Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island, South Australia
Publication Date
2012
Author(s)
Nash, Joshua
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8312-5711
Email: jnash7@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:jnash7
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Royal Society of New South Wales
Place of publication
Australia
UNE publication id
une:22030
Abstract
Documenting patterns of pristine toponymy, or toponymic knowledge in locations where people remember the locations and histories of people and events associated with extant placenames, is a worthwhile endeavour in linguistically pristine island environments, i.e. isolated, small island situations that have witnessed recent human habitation and that were uninhabited prior to colonisation. This study used the toponymy of Norfolk Island, South Pacific, an external territory of Australia as a main study and compared it to the toponymy of Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island, South Australia. The principal research question for the study sought to establish whether the difference between official and unofficial toponyms and processes of toponymy in the two island environments was a consequence of the degree of linguistic, cultural and ecological embeddedness of these toponyms and toponymic processes.
Link
Citation
Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 145(443 & 444), p. 95-96
ISSN
0035-9173
Start page
95
End page
96

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