Tag: Naming

• HMS Your Town: which British towns have had a warship named after them?

  

  I matched every Royal Navy ship in Wikidata to the British towns they are named after: 394 ships for 135 towns. Gloucester and Newcastle have had nine each; Lancaster four; Barrow none.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, cities, coast and sea, Long view, Military history, Naming, Place search, Ships and the sea, UK, war, Wikidata

• 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