What's in a Name? Surrounded by historic maps, aged tomes and a thousand dictionaries, the four employees of the PCGN advise the British government on geographical names. From the Burma/Myanmar debate to the names of rocks far out in contested waters, they keep constantly up to date with the world's ever-changing toponymic climate, just as they have for the last 100 years

The year was 1919 and the First World War had just come to an end, when the Admiralty decided to tackle an issue that had proved a thorn in its [...]