It is clear that using the latitudes and longitudes explicit on the Rotz Mappa Mundi to overlay a modern coastline on the historical map gives quite a different result to the use of toponomy. The Mappa Mundi in Jean Rotz's 1542 atlas is a good 'first approximation' of the Australian continent.

Particularly revealing is Nogueira's comment on the political dimension underlying much foreign toponomy in Galician poetry, which shines a light on the political agenda underpinning the work of contemporary Galician women poets.

180); Pensom argues for an organized and structurally meaningful relationship between factual history (toponomy and political situation), 'forest episodes' (the outlawry; popular folklore) and pure fantasy (adventures in exotic foreign lands) ('Inside and Outside', p.

The deferral of toponomy (or what we may call toponomy), then, figures in our reading as loss, absence, impossibility, and it is central to Petrolio.

The conceptualisation of Guantanamo Bay military prison in terms of a penalogical theme park--what Mahvish Khan aptly terms 'an eerie Neverland' (2008: 60)--can be elaborated by bringing into focus the various 'themed' sections that characterise the toponomy of the prison.

De Certeau has observed how place names play an important role in the practice of the metaphorical city, forming "a strange toponomy that is detached from actual places and flies over the city like a foggy geography of 'meanings' held in suspension" (104).