Atdtda[4]: 107.26 Names are being lost

[Dave Monroe]

On 3/9/07, 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.

toponym

• noun a place name, especially one derived from a topographical feature.

  — DERIVATIVES toponymic adjective toponymy noun.

http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/toponym?view=uk

Toponymy

Toponymy refers to the scientific study of place-names (toponyms),
their origins, meanings, use and typology. The word is derived from
the Greek τόπος topos, place, and oνομα ōnoma, name. It is itself a
branch of onomastics, the study of names of all kinds.

A toponym is a name of a locality, region, or some other part of
Earth's surface or an artificial feature....

[...]

Toponymist

A toponymist is one who studies toponymy. According to the Oxford
English Dictionary, the first occurrence of the word "toponymist" can
be dated roughly to the middle of the nineteenth century....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toponym

The World Ocean bed history studies in the geographical names of the
undersea relief (on the example of the general bathymetric chart of
oceans – the Gebco)

G. Agapova (Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
Moscow, Russia)

The geographical names of the undersea relief studies in the system of
the oce­anic take the special place. Their basic role – an address –
consists in describ­ing the geographical position of the objects the
forms of the relief. Another role, not less important, consists in
reflecting a history of geographical explorations and the priority of
discoveries.

Geographical names are one of the important components of the charts,
the sci­ences dealing with the Earth studies, the scientific
publications, navigation, text­books, job documentation. The
geographical names usually consist of a natural name of the object and
a generic term, determining it.

Toponymy of the World Ocean has several particularities ...

http://vitiaz.ru/congress/en/thesis/111.html

Still working on this, but gotta run in the meantime, so ...