Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
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The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the
General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans
(GEBCO) gazetteer for under-sea features situated south of 60° south latitude.
As of May 2019[update], the overall content of the CGA amounts to 37,893 geographic names for 19,803 features including some 500 features with two or more entirely different names, contributed by the following sources:
| Country | Names |
|---|---|
| United States | 13,192 |
| United Kingdom | 5,040 |
| Russia | 4,808 |
| New Zealand | 2,597 |
| Australia | 2,551 |
| Argentina | 2,545 |
| Chile | 1,866 |
| Norway | 1,706 |
| Bulgaria | 1,450 |
| Germany | 393 |
| Poland | 365 |
| China | 359 |
| Japan | 345 |
| France | 223 |
GEBCO
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182 |
| Belgium | 117 |
| Italy | 53 |
| Spain | 35 |
| South Korea | 27 |
| India | 21 |
| Ecuador | 9 |
| Uruguay | 5 |
| South Africa | 2 |
| Canada | 2 |
| Ukraine | 1 |
National Authorities for Antarctic place-names
- Country / Official authority
- Argentina: Instituto Geográfico Nacional, Servicio de Hidrografía Naval
- Australia: Australian Antarctic Names and Medals Committee
- Bulgaria: Antarctic Place-names Commission
- Canada: Geographical Names Board of Canada
- Chile: Instituto Hidrográfíco y Oceanográfico de la Armada de Chile (SHOA) and Instituto Geográfico Militar (IGM)
- China: Chinese Place-names Committee
- France: Commission de Toponymie des TAAF, TAAF, National Geographic Institute)
- Germany: Ständiger Ausschuß für Geographische Namen (Permanent committee on geographical names)
- Italy: Comitato per i nomi geografici antartici (Antarctic geographic names Committee)
- Japan: Antarctic Place-names Committee of Japan
- New Zealand: Antarctic Place-names Committee of New Zealand
- Norway: Antarctic Place-names Committee of Norway, Norsk Polarinstitutt
- Poland: Committee of Polar Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences
- Russia: Russian Interministerial Commission on Geographical Names
- UK: UK Antarctic Place-names Committee
- Uruguay: Instituto Antártico Uruguayo
- United States: United States Board on Geographic Names
- GEBCO: GEBCO Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names
External links
- Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (official website)
- SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA). NASA Global Change Master Directory (GCMD).
- Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica with place-name search. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.