Atdtda[4]: 107.26 Names are being lost

[Michel]

I am wondering if there was a point in time (or a period) when there was 
a decision (or a growing consensus) not to name every rock in the 
ocean.  It would give Miles' remark on 107 a kind of historical ground.  
Most certainly the 2nd half of the 19th century saw an enormous growth 
in geographical knowledge.

There is, after all, a *US Board on Geographic* --founded in 1890--, 
with very clear instructions how to name on the Antarctic:
http://geonames.usgs.gov/antarctic/index.html
http://geonames.usgs.gov/
Never imagined that such institutes existed in a lot of countries.

Anyone?

Michel.


	

	
		
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