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Permanent Committee on Place Names

Permanent Committee on Place Names is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Permanent Committee on Place Names rather than just read about it. In short: The Permanent Committee on Place Names (PCPN) is a geographical naming authority composed of the various Australian and New Zealand committees on geographical names. The PCPN started in 1984 as the Committee for Geographical Names in Australia (CGNA) and it was renamed in 2005.

Key takeaways

Permanent Committee on Place Names belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Permanent Committee on Place Names to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Permanent Committee on Place Names from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

The Permanent Committee on Place Names (PCPN) is a geographical naming authority composed of the various Australian and New Zealand committees on geographical names. The PCPN started in 1984 as the Committee for Geographical Names in Australia (CGNA) and it was renamed in 2005. It was integrated within the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping (ICSM) in 1993. It is also associated with the Geospatial and Earth Monitoring Division of Geoscience Australia. It contributes to the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names.

Annual meetings Annual meetings followed at:-

Bathurst (NSW) - 1985 Adelaide - 1986 Darwin - 1987 Brisbane - 1988 Hobart - 2010 Adelaide - 2011 Brisbane - 2012 Canberra - 2013

Official authorities The authorities that work on geographic names and are members of the committee, and the enabling legislation, are as follows:

Australian Capital Territory - National Memorials Committee - National Memorials Ordinance 1928 New South Wales - Geographical Names Board of New South Wales - Geographical Names Act 1966 New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa Northern Territory - Place Names Committee for the Northern Territory - Place Names Act 1978 Queensland - The Department of Geographic information - Queensland Place Names Act 1988 South Australia - Geographical Names Board of South Australia - Geographical Names Act 1969 Tasmania - Nomenclature Board of Tasmania - Survey Co-ordination Act 1944 amendments of 1955 and 1964 Victoria - Place Names Committee - Survey Co-ordination (Place Names) Act 1965, updated to Geographic Place Names Act 1998 Western Australia - Landgate - Land Administration Act 1997 (originally, prior to the Land Administration Act the Nomenclature Advisory Committee, appointed in 1936 ); Western Australian Place Names and Addressing

Additional members Antarctic Names Committee of Australia Australian Surveying and Land Information Group Department of Defence - Army Department of Defence - Navy

See also Gazetteer of Australia Suburbs and localities (Australia) Surveying in Australia

References

Further reading Committee for Geographic Names in Australia (1989) Authorities and organizations involved with geographic names in Australia (The 1988 edition and compilation was the responsibility of Brian Goodchild - Secretary of the Geographic Names Committee - Department of Land Administration Perth, Western Australia.)

External links Official website

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Permanent Committee on Place Names

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Permanent Committee on Place Names claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Permanent Committee on Place Names before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Permanent Committee on Place Names ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Permanent Committee on Place Names

In research: Permanent Committee on Place Names appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Permanent Committee on Place Names in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Permanent Committee on Place Names is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Geocodes, Geographical naming agencies, Geography of New Zealand, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Permanent Committee on Place Names outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Permanent Committee on Place Names in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Permanent Committee on Place Names means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Permanent Committee on Place Names out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Permanent Committee on Place Names in simple terms?

Why does Permanent Committee on Place Names matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Permanent Committee on Place Names?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Permanent Committee on Place Names.