Honokawa

Status

• Honokawa is proposed to be discontinued as the official geographic name for this feature
• this proposed name discontinuation was published in the New Zealand Gazette on 5 November 2009, and in relevant newspapers shortly after.

Description

Prominent mountain, at height 1428 m, located in the Raukumara Range, 10 km north-west of Mount Hikurangi. Topo50 map BE44 - Te Puia Springs, GR 376 997. Currently the feature has two official geographic names, Whanokao and Honokawa by New Zealand Gazette, 29 July 1948, No. 42, page 939, both published as separate entries. Whanokao appears on current mapping and is proposed to continue as the official geographic name for this feature.

Report

You can read the Honokawa Place Name Proposal Report (PDF 2.09MB also available in HTML), which was considered the New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa (NZGB) at its meeting on 16 September 2009. The report includes a printable map.

Consultation

The consultation period ended 5pm 11 December 2009.

Map

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