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Nau mai, haere mai. A step-by-step approach you might use to find Māori land records.

Assigned and altered geographic feature and Crown protected area names, a discontinued Crown protected area name, and corrected geographic feature names.

Imagery of New Zealand is free to download or stream as Open Data. The data can also be viewed directly through the LINZ Data Service and LINZ Basemaps.

This National Imagery Base Specification provides a foundation for New Zealand public sector aerial imagery data procurement.

Toitū Te Whenua LINZ is subject to the Privacy Act 2020 which requires us to tell you certain things about the personal information we need to carry out our functions. This page explains the ways that we collect, store, use and share your personal information when you interact with the New Zealand Gazetteer website (gazetteer.linz.govt.nz).

Coordinated LiDAR procurement maximises national benefit.

Digital elevation models and point clouds are free to download or stream as Open Data. The data can also be previewed as 3D hillshade visualisation through the LINZ Data Service and LINZ Basemaps.

Our role in biosecurity and biodiversity.

Organisations and websites that relate to overseas investment.

The Marine and Coastal Area Register is a record of customary interests in the marine and coastal area recognised under the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act 2011 or Ngā Rohe Moana o Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Porou Act 2019.

Our pest and weed control work in Southland.

Our pest and weed control work on the West Coast.

New Zealand rockets into the space age on the back of overseas investment.

Find out about the data sources used in LINZ Basemaps APIs and how to attribute them in your web map.

A schedule of upcoming changes to Pacific nautical charts

PositioNZ-PP can be used to create a cadastral survey network (CSN) or a geodetic mark in areas where there is no efficient way to connect to the datum. Find out how to add these marks to Landonline before a cadastral survey dataset (CSD) is submitted.

Key datasets play a critical role in decision-making for emergency management. They cover people, property, transport, rivers, place, land and coast, and are vital for risk reduction, readiness, response and recovery, and climate change.

Toitū Te Whenua helps coordinate and promote the use of geographic data as New Zealand prepares for and responds to emergency events and climate change.

This page contains links to the Brown Bag Resilience Series of presentations, including slides, videos and webinars.

Named by Cook after the wife of King George III, Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui was officially dual named in 2014 through two Treaty of Waitangi settlements.

Originally named by Kupe who took it for a whale (tohoraha being the southern right whale), Cook later named this feature after a camel.

While Cook had no doubts about the nature of this feature, he didn’t know that French explorer Jean François Marie de Surville had anchored in Doubtless Bay for two weeks in 1769 before sailing for Peru.

Named by Cook for a huge haul of fish. In 2012 the original Māori place name Paepae-o-Tū was restored by the Ngāti Manuhiri Treaty of Waitangi settlement.

This system enables the Crown to acquire, sell and manage Crown-owned land (including Crown pastoral leases) in a way that balances both the public interest and private property rights. It is made up of two parts – the Crown Estate Management system and the Crown Pastoral Land system.

Find out why uncertainty about the spelling and meanings of Cape Terawhiti and Cape Koamaru persist today.

Paoa was captain of the Horouta waka and his name and exploits are featured across the east coast of Te Ika-a-Māui North Island. Cook named it after the 12-year-old crewman who first spotted land from HMB Endeavor.

Stories from Place Names of the Ancestors, A Māori Oral History Atlas.