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Australian place names changed from German names - During the Great War, many Germanic place names in Australia were changed. The new names were often Anglicized (Peterborough), given aboriginal names (Kobandilla, Karawirra), names of famous people (Kitchener), or battlefields (Verdun, The Somme).
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names - The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica. The United States does not recognise territorial boundaries within Antarctica, so ACAN will assign names to features anywhere within the continent, in consultation with other national nomenclatural bodies where appropriate.
South African Geographical Names Council - The South African Geographical Names Council is the official government body of South Africa that advises the executive branch of the central government (in the form of the Minister of Arts and Culture) on new geographical names as well as the changing of existing geographical names.
Descriptivist theory of names - Descriptivist theory of Names is a view of the nature of the meaning and reference of proper names generally attributed to Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell. The theory consists essentially in the idea that the meanings (semantic contents) of names are identical to the descriptions associated with them by speakers, while their referents are determined to be the objects that satisfy these descriptions.
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