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Gazetteer of Australia MapServer

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 19/11/2025

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This service will be decommissioned on 12/01/2025. The most up to date national gazetteer data can be found at the following address: https://placenames.fsdf.org.au/. The Australian Gazetteer service provides authoritative information on the location, and spelling of approved place names. The Australian Gazetteer is a subset of information held by the relevant State, Territory and Commonwealth naming authorities. Additional authoritative information has also been sourced from the Australian Hydrographic Service, Australian Antarctic Division and Geoscience Australia.

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Title Gazetteer of Australia MapServer
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/25481965-3b4d-46b7-aa0c-950736987d6a
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 17/11/2025
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        45.0,
        -80.0
      ],
      [
        169.0,
        -80.0
      ],
      [
        169.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        45.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        45.0,
        -80.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Data.gov.au