Toponymy on Norfolk Island, South Pacific: The Microcosm of Nepean Island
| dc.contributor.author | Nash, Joshua | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-04-13T15:10:22Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-04-13T15:10:22Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Norfolk Island, South Pacific provides linguists a near laboratory case study in naming, language contact and environmental management. The two languages spoken on the island, Norf’k – the language of the descendents of the Pitcairners – and English, are both used in placenaming. This study analyses the toponyms of Nepean Island, a small uninhabitable island 800 metres south of Norfolk, and poses the question of whether Nepean is a microcosm of naming behaviour for the rest of the Norfolk macrocosm. For its size Nepean Island offers a large number of toponyms and suggests a toponymic template applicable to the Norfolk archipelago as a whole. This analysis offers some results one is likely to get from doing toponymic research on uninhabited island environments. | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress of Onomastic Sciences | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-55014-521-2 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10315/4014 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | York University | en |
| dc.rights | The following articles are © 2009 with the individual authors. They are made available free of charge from this page as a service to the community under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivative Works license version 3.0. For full details go to http://creativecommons.org.licenses/ny-nd.3.0 | en |
| dc.subject | Toponymy of Norfolk Island | en |
| dc.subject | Nepean Island | en |
| dc.subject | Norfolk Island | en |
| dc.title | Toponymy on Norfolk Island, South Pacific: The Microcosm of Nepean Island | en |
| dc.title.alternative | Session Paper | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |