gazetteer

In 2008, drinks historians Jared Brown and Anistatia Miller discovered a 1798 printing of the word in London's The Morning Post And Gazetteer.

"If you look at the existing names in the Antarctic Gazetteer, they are a shorthand for the history of exploration and scientific endeavour. This latest group of names will add to that history. And when future generations look back, they'll understand what the science priorities, and operational focus, were at the time," he told BBC News.

I have a gazetteer in the car, and when that fails, I ask people for directions.

He needed eye surgery; during his recovery, he spent nearly a hundred hours poring, one-eyed, over his DeLorme Atlas & Gazetteer, which contains a detailed topography of the back roads of northern Arkansas.

On the seat beside her was the “California Atlas and Gazetteer” and a blue binder she had prepared for the trip, labelled “Capes of California.”