Mākaro/Ward Island

Status

• Spelling alteration from Makaro/Ward Island (macron to be added) and replacing previous New Zealand Gazette, 12 June 1997, No. 60, page 1403
• This name proposal was published in the New Zealand Gazette, newspapers and the 14 May 2009 NZGB public notice of decisions.

Description & location

Island in Wellington Harbour (Port Nicholson), topographic map 260-R27, R28 & Pt. Q27-Wellington, GR 667 886.

Report

You can read the Mākaro/Ward Island place name report (pdf 471KB - also available in HTML), which was considered by the New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa (NZGB) at its meeting on 27 March 2009. The report includes a printable map.

Consultation

The consultation period closed 5pm 17 August 2009.

Map

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