Tag: Naming

• Named after somewhere else: mapping the places named after other places

  

  I mapped the 3,981 settlements Wikidata says are named after another place. Most names come from a river or the town next door, but 14% crossed an ocean, and Britain gave away more names than anywhere else.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Empire and colonialism, Flow map, history, Long view, maps, Migration, Naming, place names, population, UK, Wikidata, World

• Towns with an asteroid: the places on Earth that have a minor planet

  

  I mapped 2,193 asteroids (2,206 namings) named after places on Earth, each with a line to the observatory that found it. Japan has the most, Finland the most per head, and small observatories name the next valley.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Asia, cities, Naming, place names, Present day, space, Space and astronomy, Wikidata, World, world maps

• Who’s on the Moon? The birthplaces of the people we named other worlds after

  

  I traced 2,718 names on the Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars back to the towns where those people were born. 75% of the Moon’s people were born in Europe, and Paris alone outnumbers Africa, South America and Oceania.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Beyond Earth, Birthplaces, Commemoration, Naming, place names, population, Present day, space, Space and astronomy, Wikidata

• Who named Antarctica? Twenty thousand place names, the nations that gave them and the people they honour

  

  I mapped 20,151 Antarctic place names by who named them, when and after whom. America and Britain named 46% of the continent, and only 3.4% of the people honoured are women.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  coast and sea, Commemoration, Naming, place names, Twentieth century, Wikidata, Women and gender, World, world maps

• Who’s on the mountains? The birthplaces of the people the world’s peaks are named after

  

  I linked 2,228 mountains named after people to their namesakes’ birthplaces. 84% of the person-named peaks of Australia and New Zealand honour someone born on another continent.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  place names, population, landscape, world maps, Birthplaces, Commemoration, Empire and colonialism, Hills and mountains, Naming, Present day, Wikidata, World