Recent NZGB Decisions
The New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa (NZGB) meets regularly to assign, approve, alter or discontinue the use of names for geographic features (eg. place names), undersea features and Crown protected areas in New Zealand, its offshore islands and its continental shelf and the Ross Sea region of Antarctica.
All decisions are published in the New Zealand Gazette. You can view NZGB Gazetted Notices online or review the most recent determinations below.
If you are looking for names currently open for public consulation, please go to the list of current place name proposals.
NZGB place name determinations
- 9 February 2012
- 26 January 2012
- 10 November 2011
- 3 November 2011
- 18 August 2011
- 18 August 2011
- 9 June 2011
- 24 February 2011
- 16 December 2010
- 9 September 2010
- 26 August 2010
- 5 November 2009
- 14 May 2009
You can also find out about past decisions and determinations in the NZGB gazetted notices.
Antarctic place name
Treaty Settlement names
- Pārae Karetu
- Baring Head/Orua-pouanui
- Pariwhero/Red Rocks
- Sinclair Head/Te Rimurapa
- Steeple Rock/Te Aroaro-o-Kupe
- Te Ahumairangi Hill
- Mount Wai-ariki
- Whiorau/Lowry Bay
- Waitohi Stream
DoC Crown Protected Area names
- 9 February 2012
- Te Wai-o-Koroiko Scenic Reserve
- Wairēinga Scenic Reserve
- Tāwharanui Marine Reserve
- Te Waikoropupū Springs Scenic Reserve
- Lake Koitiata Scenic Reserve
- Marton Golf Course
- Mōtū Karaka Scenic Reserve
- Omarupapako / Round Bush Scenic Reserve
- Pākiki Scenic Reserve
- Ōrangipuku River Scenic Reserve
- Mosquito Creek Scenic Reserve
- Oteake Conservation Park
- Hāwea Conservation Park
Minister's name determinations
- Colonial Knob
- Hobsonville
- Plimmerton
- Rānui
- St Albans
- Tamaki Railway Station
- Te Awa Kairangi / Hutt River
- Hillary Ridge
- Stonefields
- Rāngaiika
- Poutākoro Head
- Hāwea Flat (settlement)
- Hāwea River
- Hāwea Island
- Lake Hāwea (lake)
- Lake Hāwea (locality)
- Mount Pickering
- Mount Tinsley
Undersea feature names
- 26 January 2011
- 85 adopted undersea feature names gazetted on 16 December 2010
