Geographical place names are the names used for geographical places and features such as countries, regions, cities, towns, villages, lakes, rivers and streams, seas, oceans, ice caps, ice sheets, peninsulas, estuaries, bays, fjords, sounds, mountains or valleys etc.
For reasons of accuracy and cultural respect, published manuscripts should always use the most accurately available spellings for geographical places wherever they are in the world. Where available, names authorised by official bodies, such as the Greenland Language Secretariat (GLC), should be used.
Manuscripts submitted to GEUS Bulletin should adhere to following guidelines regarding spellings of geographic places:
Formal lithostratigraphic units, names of magmatic intrusions and other published geological features should use the spelling convention established by the community and within existing scientific literature. This is true, even if those locality names have since changed following Greenlandic orthography. However, refer to the modern, authorised place name spelling when describing the geographical location of said features. For example, “Kangâmiut dyke swarm” for the geological feature, but “Kangaamiut” for the geographical place name.
Names for geological features that are not formerly defined elsewhere should use up-to-date authorised place name spellings.