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International place naming
The NZGB engages with international naming authorities on Antarctic, undersea, regional and global place naming matters.
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Place name proposal - Whanganui District
This proposal is for the alteration of an official name - from Wanganui District to Whanganui District.
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NZGB notices – August 2022
Proposed railway station names.
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Place name proposal - Ngākōroa Railway Station
The proposal was to assign a new official name to a railway station to be built in south Auckland.
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Place name proposal - North Island
The proposal was to make the current English name for the North Island official.
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Place name proposal - Rangiriri
The proposal is to alter the recorded unofficial locality names Rangiriri, Rangiriri West and Churchill to the one official name Rangiriri with an officially defined extent (boundary) as depicted below.
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Place name proposal - Te Kakau Bank
The proposal is to alter Kaukau Bank to Te Kakau Bank and make it the official name of an undersea bank offshore from the southeast coast of the North Island approximately 5km east of Te Kakau Point.
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Maps of Te Waipounamu and Te Ika-a-Māui - second edition 2023
Tangata whenua place names of Aotearoa New Zealand, pre European settlement. Download the second edition of these maps and learn about the updates made in 2023.
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NZGB notices – January 2023
Proposed, approved, altered and amended geographic names.
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Place name proposal - Rangitīkei District
The proposal was to change Rangitikei District to Rangitīkei District for the local authority district that Rangitikei District Council administers.
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Place name proposal - Abbotts Creek
This proposal was to change the name Abbots Creek to Abbotts Creek, for the stream that flows east from Remutaka Pass to Featherston, in south Wairarapa.
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NZGB notices – June 2024
Proposed, adopted, discontinued and corrected geographic feature names
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Place name proposal - Franz Joseph / Kā Roimata-o-Hinehukatere
The proposal is to alter the official place name Franz Josef Glacier/Kā Roimata o Hine Hukatere to Franz Joseph Glacier / Kā Roimata-o-Hinehukatere for the glacier that flows from a large basin in the Southern Alps/Kā Tiritiri o te Moana to its terminus between Fritz Range and Baird Range.
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Place name proposal - Manawatū District
The proposal was to alter the official place name Manawatu District to Manawatū District for the area administered by Manawatu District Council.
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Place name proposal - Meyer Pass
Proposal to assign Meyer Pass as the official name of the pass at ~700m on Meyers Pass Road on Campbell Hills.
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Place name proposal - Hess Glacier
The proposal is to alter Hesse Glacier to Hess Glacier and make it the official name of the glacier southeast of Marion Tower and south of Snowdrift Range, approximately 50km northwest of Wānaka.
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Place name proposal - Pukekōwhai, Ngā Māipi-e-Waru-a-Kupe, Puketihia
These proposals are for three peaks on the western edge of Ngāumu Forest, west of Riversdale Beach (locality) in the Wairarapa.
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Mountaineers who died during service
David John Albert (Bert) Lyttle, Bernard Head, James (Jim) Dennistoun, Arthur Talbot, Bernard Tennent and John (Jack) Robert Murrell.
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Place name proposal - Mount Kirk
This proposal is to make Mount Kirk the official name of a prominent peak rising to 1436m west of Percy Saddle, Turret Range, in Fiordland National Park.
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Acheron Passage and Resolution Island
Two journeys of discovery led to the naming of these features in Fiordland’s Tamatea / Dusky Sound.
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South Cape / Whiore
Botanist Joseph Banks’ hope of New Zealand being the ‘great southern continent’ were dashed when the HMB Endeavour rounded the southernmost point of Stewart Island / Rakiura and only ocean lay beyond. In 1998 the Ngāi Tahu Treaty settlement restored the original Māori name to the cape.
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Banks Peninsula
Named after the naturalist Joseph Banks, Banks Peninsula was shown on maps as an island for forty years until an 1809 survey.
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Matakitakiakupe or Cape Palliser
Alternative official names for this Te Ika-a-Māui North Island feature recognise the great Pacific navigator Kupe and Sir Hugh Palliser, who was a key supporter of Cook in the British Admiralty.
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Cannibal Cove
While the HMB Endeavour was under repair in Meretoto / Ship Cove, Cook took a small boat and crew to explore Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui.
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Mount Taranaki or Mount Egmont
Discover the stories of the naming of this maunga.
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Poor Knights Islands
Mystery surrounds why Cook named this island group ‘Poor Knights’.
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Bay of Plenty
Discover the story of Te Moana-a-Toitehuatahi, later named Bay of Plenty by Cook in 1769.
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Dusky Sound
Tuia - Encounters 250: Cook’s place names around New Zealand - Dusky Sound
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Place names from Cook’s voyages
The stories of over 260 place names associated with Lieutenant James Cook’s voyages to New Zealand in the late 1700s.
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Tōhē - A Last Journey
A tale from He Korero Pūrākau Mo Ngā Taunahanahatanga a Ngā Tūpuna (Place Names Of The Ancestors) - A Māori Oral History Atlas
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Features named after Passchendaele
The First World War through place names. Paschendale Ridge in Westland National Park / Tai Poutini National Park, Passchendaele Ice Fall and Passchendaele Peak in South Main Divide.
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Gallipoli Heights, Antarctica
The First World War through place names. Gallipoli Heights, Antarctica.
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