NRS-15382 | Geographical names cards

These cards contain the names of places and geographical features throughout New South Wales as required by Section 5(h) of the Geographical Names Act, 1966. The series indicates official placenames of a huge variety of places and landforms. These include cities towns and suburbs; national parks, parks and reserves; localities within forests parks and reserves; buildings; schools; railway stations; post offices; wharves; cemeteries; mountains, plateaux, hills and valleys and lookouts ; creeks, lakes, rivers and rapids.The cards are colour coded. White and pink cards are inter-sorted into a single alphabetical sequence The white cards contain information that was current at the time the series was closed and includes: name of place or feature; designation (the type of place or feature); Parish; local government area; reviewed map name; description; date gazetted. Other information may include previous and/or altered names; County; 1:100,000 map series name and number; Central Mapping Authority map name; latitude; longitude; height above mean sea level; meaning; origin; and history.The pink cards contain information about discontinued names. The cards contain: name of place or feature; designation; the new geographical name; 1:100,000 map series name and number; latitude; and longitude.Prior to the introduction of the cards there was no formal registry of names, and this resulted in many places and features having several different spellings or names. The cards were superseded by a database titled the Geographical Names Register in c.1990. The cards are no longer the official "dictionary of geographical names" because the Register contains more up-to-date information, such as historical facts of which the Board was not aware in the past, or details of place names that have altered since 1990. Despite this, the Register entry may not contain all of the information provided on the corresponding card, particularly if the card contains detailed information. Discontinued names are retained in the Register.