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Register of Geographic Place Names (VICNAMES)

Created 05/05/2025

Updated 05/05/2025

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VICNAMES holds over 45,000 place names and over 200,000 road names such as mountains, rivers, transport infrastructure, parks, reserves, forests, bounded localities, roads, streets and lanes. The Register has the capacity to hold 342 separate feature types and 153 individual road types. Records within VICNAMES may have historical information attached, there are over 12,000 geographic features and road names that have historical information associated to them. VICNAMES as Victoria's register of geographic place names forms part of the national gazetteer which is hosted by GeoScience Australia and updated yearly. Data from VICNAMES or the National Gazetter maybe downloaded at any time.

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Title Register of Geographic Place Names (VICNAMES)
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/6010f809-37ec-40b1-856f-45904c265231
Remote Last Updated 16/12/2024
Contact Point
Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
test@email.loc
Reference Period 20/01/2019
Geospatial Coverage http://www.ga.gov.au/place-names/PlaceDetails.jsp?submit1=GA7
Data Portal data.gov.au

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Victoria Government "Register of Geographic Place Names (VICNAMES)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/register-of-geographic-place-names-vicnames-current

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