Talk:South Island (South Australia)

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Was this island's name ever gazetted?

Great job creating pages for the less visited islands of South Australia, User:Cowdy001. Are you able to tell me if South Island was ever gazetted? I ask because the gazetted name layer on the SA Gov's Property Location Browser does not name the island. I wonder if this is a matter for the Geographical Place Names Unit, or whether it's simply an error/omission from the PLB database. PLB can be accessed here: http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ --Danimations (talk) 02:09, 11 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The short answer is that I do not know. I checked it on Property Location Browser earlier this year and found that there was no entry and that the land is recorded as being "Lot 100 Pondalowie Bay Rd INNESTON". I have previously encountered some problems with gazetted place names - the most recent was the location of Dorothee Island for which the gazetted coordinates published in both the PLB and Geoscience Australia (GS) databases were for a location many kilometres away (for the article, I used coordinates that I transcribed from a RAN chart). An email from Geoscience Australia suggested an opportunity may exist to correspond with a cartographer within the Geographical Place Names Unit which I did not follow up on. Anyway, I selected South Island as the article title because this is the name that appears to be in the most common use (i.e. the DEWNR management plan for Innes National Park) - an approach which follows a principle used by the Geographical Place Names Unit. I suspect the problem which also exists for the "unnamed island" in Baird Bay may be the usual historical one of a lack of resources within the relevant government agency. I am actually thinking about writing an article re "Placenames in South Australia" mainly for the benefit of editors rather than the reader. This would create the opportunity to explain definitions such as bounded and unbounded localities, government towns et al as well as discussing the work of European navigators such as Grant, Flinders, Baudin et al. Regards Cowdy001 (talk) 02:49, 11 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]