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.
- New Zealand (xls 2.0MB) or (pdf 835KB) - updated 11 March 2010
- Offshore islands (xls 168KB) or (pdf 132KB) - updated 23 December 2009
- Railway lines (xls 42KB) or (pdf 45KB) - updated 18 December 2009
- Antarctic (xls 3.88MB) or (pdf 1.15MB) - updated 18 December 2009
- Crown Protected Area (xls 5.73MB) or (pdf 330KB) - updated 18 March 2010
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.
