SHIPPED ASHORE The origins and deployment of mermaid place names in Australia and related visual representations

Hayward, P; Fleury, C

SHIPPED ASHORE The origins and deployment of mermaid place names in Australia and related visual representations

Hayward, P

Fleury, C

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Publisher:: Shima Publishing
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Shima, 2021, 15, (2), pp. 239-255
Issue Date:: 2021-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Hayward, P https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0018-0174
dc.contributor.author	Fleury, C
dc.date.accessioned	2022-07-03T22:49:07Z
dc.date.available	2022-07-03T22:49:07Z
dc.date.issued	2021-01-01
dc.identifier.citation	Shima, 2021, 15, (2), pp. 239-255
dc.identifier.issn	1834-6049
dc.identifier.issn	1834-6057
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/158581
dc.description.abstract	Since European and, specifically, Anglo-Irish colonisation in the late 1700s, a number of Australian locations have been given the name ‘mermaid.’ This article examines the principal derivations of these place names – including those relating to the voyages of the HMC Mermaid around Australia’s coastline in the early 1800s – and some of the manners in which these names have been represented in signage, place branding, commercial applications and/or public discourse. In providing this critical survey, the article examines the inscription of a traditional European folkloric entity (and modern media representations of it) into Australian public culture and, in some instances, the related impact of these on destination branding.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Shima Publishing
dc.relation.ispartof	Shima
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.21463/SHIMA.115
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.title	SHIPPED ASHORE The origins and deployment of mermaid place names in Australia and related visual representations
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	15
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/School of Communication
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dc.date.updated	2022-07-03T22:49:05Z
pubs.issue	2
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utslib.citation.issue	2

Abstract:

Since European and, specifically, Anglo-Irish colonisation in the late 1700s, a number of Australian locations have been given the name ‘mermaid.’ This article examines the principal derivations of these place names – including those relating to the voyages of the HMC Mermaid around Australia’s coastline in the early 1800s – and some of the manners in which these names have been represented in signage, place branding, commercial applications and/or public discourse. In providing this critical survey, the article examines the inscription of a traditional European folkloric entity (and modern media representations of it) into Australian public culture and, in some instances, the related impact of these on destination branding.

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