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The
Maritime Gazetteer of Australia (MGA) is a searchable
database containing all the place names used in Australia's
official navigational charts.
Positions
relating to a feature name are displayed to the nearest
minute of latitude and longitude together with a
limited number of other attributes, such as all the
charts that include each name. The MGA does
not provide the gazetted geographic position of features.
Place
names contained in Australia's official navigational
charts for the Australian mainland, offshore territories,
Antarctica and PNG are in the MGA. The MGA is updated
and enhanced as new charts are published.
The
MGA database currently displays the following fields:
- Feature
Name: The Name as it appears on the official navigational
chart.
- Feature
Type: This shows the Code of the feature type which
the name represents. For details see the Feature
Code Index.
- Latitude
and Longitude: The position of the name on the
chart. Note this is not necessarily the
position of the feature itself, which may only
lie partially on the chart (for example an ocean).
- Charts
on which the name appears.
- Grouping:
This field shows the association of a collection
of features to a group (for example a collection
of Islands which form an Island Group).
- Feature
ID - a unique identifier for each name in the database.
The
MGA can be searched online by Feature Name.
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