Among them were seven creeks, another mountain and a small island.

The decision is the latest such call for name changes over the last decade, as community groups across Australia have voiced anger at names that they say are offensive either because they are overtly racist, or because of their portrayal of painful historical events that occurred there.

It also comes amid debate in other countries over whether and how to preserve legacies of slavery and colonialism. Last year, New Zealand changed three racially-offensive place names. In the United States, calls to remove Confederate flags and monuments have prompted violent, even deadly, clashes.

In May, the Tasmanian Aboriginal Center, a government-funded group that advocates on behalf of Aboriginal communities, announced that it was seeking to have 11 traditional place names, including Victory Hill, Suicide Bay and Cape Grim, stricken from the record. Those names, the group said, were offensive because they referred to massacres of Indigenous people.

In 2008, a ridge in Alpine National Park in the state of Victoria whose name included a racial slur was renamed Jaithmathangs, the name of a local language. But the new name ignited outrage among the Dhudhuroas, a local Aboriginal group, who said the new name was culturally and linguistically inappropriate, as it applied to a different group that lived miles away from the ridge.

The mayor of the Tablelands Regional Council in North Queensland, Joe Paronella, said that 14 years ago, a creek in the area with the same racial epithet was renamed Wondecla Creek.