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- Title
Populating the landscape with absent friends: the use of personal names in Palmerston Island toponyms.
- Authors
Hendery, Rachel
- Abstract
This paper describes and contextualizes placenames on Palmerston Island, a small Pacific island populated by around 50 descendants of a mixed-origin group of settlers in the 1860s. The inhabitants today are monolingual speakers of a dialect that has been described variously as an English dialect or an English-based creole. I show that Palmerston English placenames are rarely complex or detailed descriptive names, and this can be accounted for by the small, isolated and densely-networked nature of the population. The isolation and transience of the community may also contribute to the high number of placenames that index people's names or other locations.
- Subjects
PALMERSTON (N.T.); AUSTRALIA; GEOGRAPHIC names; ECONOMICS &; politics; POPULATION policy; ENGLISH Creole dialects; POLITICAL science
- Publication
Island Studies Journal, 2016, Vol 11, Issue 2, p359
- ISSN
1715-2593
- Publication type
Article