Records of the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names

PCGN

1919 -2001

Records of the Permanent Committee on Geographic Names (PCGN) relating to its work on the names of places and geographical features outside the UK.

Agendas, minutes and papers of the PCGN and its sub-committees are in PCGN 1.

For the PCGN website, see: DEFE 193

Public Record(s)

English

1 series

Subject to 30 year closure

Permanent Committee on Geographical Names

All records have been created and held by the organisation

The Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (PCGN) is an independent inter-departmental body in the UK, established in 1919. Its principal function is to advise the British Government on policies and procedures for the proper writing of geographical names for places and features outside the UK, excluding those of the Antarctic.

The PCGN's costs are met by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the Ministry of Defence. The permanent staff of the Committee are accommodated in the Committee's offices which, to serve inter-departmental interests, are located within the House of the Royal Geographical Society, Kensington Gore, London.

Members of the PCGN are: the British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring Service; the Intelligence Collection Group (ICG), formerly the Defence Geospatial Intelligence; Defence Intelligence; the Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ); the Hydrographic Office; Ordnance Survey; the Royal Geographical Society; and the Royal Scottish Geographical Society.