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To this Board shall be referred all unsettled questions concerning geographic names. The decisions of the Board are to be accepted [by federal departments] as the standard authority for such matters." [2] [3] The board was given authority to resolve all unsettled questions concerning geographic names. Decisions of the board were accepted as ...
The Board on Geographic Names database was a record of investigative work of the USGS Board on Geographic Names' Domestic Names Committee, and decisions that it had made from 1890 onwards, as well as names that were enshrined by Acts of Congress. [28] Elevation and location data followed the same rules as for the NGNDB. [29]
The GEOnet Names Server (GNS), sometimes also referred to in official documentation as Geographic Names Data [1] or geonames [2] in domain and email addresses, is a service that provides access to the United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) and the US Board on Geographic Names's (BGN) database of geographic feature names and locations for locations outside the US.
It became the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1947. [1] Fred G. Alberts was Secretary of the Committee from 1949 to 1980. [1] By 1959, a structured nomenclature was reached, allowing for further exploration, structured mapping of the region and a unique naming system. A 1990 ACAN gazeeter of Antarctica listed 16,000 names. [2]
Denali (also known as Mount McKinley), is the highest peak in the park and the highest peak in North America at 20,320 feet (6,194 m) [1] [2] The names listed here reflect the official names in the USGS U.S. Board on Geographic Names database. They in most cases exclude subsidiary peaks of larger mountains — McKinley alone has dozens of ...
Pages in category "United States Geological Survey" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total. ... United States Board on Geographic Names; C.
The Oregon Geographic Board was established by Governor George Chamberlain in an executive order signed on October 1, 1908. [1] [2] [3] It was created to assist the United States Board on Geographic Names in naming geographic features within the state of Oregon.
Place Names of Glacier National Park. Helena, Montana: Riverbend Publishing. ISBN 1-931832-68-4. Schutz, James Willard (1926). Signposts of Adventure: Glacier National Park as the Indians Know It. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. OCLC 1544470. Trails Illustrated-North Fork, Glacier National Park, Montana (314) (Map) (Revised ed.). 1: ...