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  • Place Names of the Ancestors - A Māori Oral History Atlas

    This bilingual book tells the stories of early Māori discoverers, explorers and travellers from the first wave of migration waka, and the place names they gave. Each story has a map showing their journeys and the locations of the places named.
    Guide
    • Place naming

  • First-order geodetic triangulation of New Zealand 1909-49 1973-74

    This was the official geodetic datum for New Zealand until 1998. Like most datums of its era it was defined using astronomical observations to establish the coordinates of a relatively small number of fiducial stations. Triangulation was then used to…
    Research report
    • Geodetic

  • New Zealand Map Grid - Department of Lands and Survey Technical Circular

    The following document is a scanned image of the Department of Land and Survey Technical Circular 1973/32 that describes the technical details of the New Zealand Map Grid.
    Research report
    • Geodetic

  • A Conformal Mapping Projection with Minimum Scale Error

    The following document is a scanned image of a paper published in Survey Review XXII, 168, April 1973. It is published here with the permission of Dr. Ian Reilly and describes the theory and methodology behind the development of the New Zealand Map Grid.
    Research report
    • Geodetic
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