Atdtda[4]: 107.26 Names are being lost

[Dave Monroe]

--- Michel <mryc2903 at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> 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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