Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/22615
Title: Small-scale sea naming in Oceania: Island toponymies and Pitcairn Island fishing ground names
Contributor(s): Nash, Joshua  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2016
Open Access: Yes
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/22615
Open Access Link: http://eastsea1994.org/html/seminars_thesis.phpOpen Access Link
Abstract: This article reflects on the results of documenting fishing ground naming history on and around three islands in Oceania - Norfolk Island (South Pacific), Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island (South Australia), and Pitcairn Island (South Pacific) - and placenaming practices more generally encompassing islands, insularity, isolation, and the sea. The major study is Pitcairn Island. This island is both a toponymic dream and placenaming encumbrance. There are more than 500 placenames contained within an d just offshore the five-kilometre square island, a volcanic outcrop famed as the home of the descendants of the British mutineers of the Bounty and their Polynesian entourage. The Pitcairn Islanders have named hydronyms surrounding their island primarily as utilitarian linguistic and historical tools used for locating fishing grounds. These sea names are not only stark examples of maritime and aquatic cultural heritage; they illustrate how perceptions and processes of naming the marine environment relate to and can inform terrestrial naming. The interaction involving small - scale sea names and names as folk capital is presented as a possible mandate for creating a peaceful reconciliation between naming sea and land. The Pacific example is extended to the ongoing dispute between Korea and Japan regarding naming the East Sea/Sea of Japan .
Publication Type: Conference Publication
Conference Details: Seas and Islands: Connecting People, Culture, History and the Future, Jeju, Korea, 23rd - 26th October, 2016
Source of Publication: Proceedings of the 22nd International Seminar on Sea Names, v.22, p. 29-38
Publisher: The Society for East Sea
Place of Publication: Seoul, Republic of Korea
ISSN: 1062-1237
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 200405 Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)
200408 Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 470411 Sociolinguistics
470409 Linguistic structures (incl. phonology, morphology and syntax)
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture
950201 Communication Across Languages and Culture
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 280116 Expanding knowledge in language, communication and culture
280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies
130201 Communication across languages and culture
HERDC Category Description: E2 Non-Refereed Scholarly Conference Publication
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