New Zealand Gazetteer of Official Geographic Names

The New Zealand Gazetteer of Official Geographic Names (the Gazetteer) is published by the New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa (NZGB). The Gazetteer contains all official names for features within the NZGB's jurisdiction.

The Gazetteer includes the following information for each official name:

• official name
• gazette or statutory reference
• type of feature or place (eg town, mountain, etc)
• position (in terms of the New Zealand Transverse Mercator 2000 (NZTM2000) projection and New Zealand Geodetic Datum 2000 (NZGD2000))
• description (where available)
• extent (where available).

Download the Gazetteer

The Gazetteer is divided into five pages based on the type of place or feature. The New Zealand and Offshore Island name files were last updated on 10 July 2009. The Railway Line name files were last updated on 9 January 2009. The Crown Protected Area and Antarctic files were last updated on 1 November 2008.

• New Zealand (xls 2.03MB) or (pdf 912KB)
• Offshore islands (xls 177KB) or (pdf 152KB)
• Railway lines (xls 42KB) or (pdf 45KB)
• Antarctic (xls 3.88MB) or (pdf 1.15MB)
• Crown Protected Area (xls 5.73MB) or (pdf 330KB)

Macrons

A number of official names contain macrons. While the Gazetteer shows the macrons for these names, care needs to be taken to ensure that they are retained when the names are moved between software packages. The NZGB has compiled a list of official names with macrons to assist in mapping, charting, signage, reporting, legislation, or other official documents.

Names not in the Gazetteer

There are many other unofficial geographic feature names in New Zealand. Get help finding names.