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Cook named this Te Waipounamu South Island feature as the HMB Endeavour departed New Zealand for Australia in March 1770.

The volcanic peak Putauaki rises from the plains of the Bay of Plenty. Important to local Māori, Putauaki has many stories associated with it.

Find out how Cook’s name for this bay affected its people.

This important waterway to tangata whenua was later named after its similarity to London’s River Thames.

Tolaga Bay is one of the great linguistic mysteries of New Zealand’s place names.

A tale from He Korero Pūrākau Mo Ngā Taunahanahatanga a Ngā Tūpuna (Place Names Of The Ancestors) - A Māori Oral History Atlas

Hannah is a Master of Science in Remote Sensing student at Massey University (Turitea Campus, Palmerston North).

From the 1840s New Zealand’s land records were managed under a paper system. Since 2002, the titles, survey plans and related documents have been held in an electronic database called Landonline.

Toitū Te Whenua does not own the copyright of the elevation data or aerial imagery that is available through the LINZ Data Service and requires you to use a different attribution statement.

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Information on different types of historic records and where they're held.

The High Country Advisory Group (HCAG) was established in 2018 to enable a range of stakeholders, representing farming, environmental and iwi interests, to provide advice to LINZ and the Commissioner of Crown Lands on the management of Crown pastoral land in the South Island high country.

The LINZ Geodetic Marks app allows users to navigate to geodetic marks, access mark details, submit updated mark photos, and find key non-boundary marks that may need to be protected when engaging in earthworks.

New Zealand needs people with the skills and understanding to unlock the potential of location information. There are Geographic Information System (GIS) related courses being offered from Whangarei to Invercargill, and students are experiencing big benefits from adding GIS to their study.

Land Information New Zealand has carried out in-depth assessments of New Zealand waters, including the Sub-Antarctic Islands, to help us prioritise improvements to charts and navigation information.

SouthPAN (Southern Positioning Augmentation Network) will improve the accuracy and reliability of satellite-based positioning systems in New Zealand and Australia.

Download free maps as image files (TIFF and GeoTIFF formats) for Tokelau, Niue and the Cook Islands.

The Crown Aerial Film Library is an incredibly important national taonga/treasure. Toitū Te Whenua’s historical aerial imagery scanning project was a nine-year effort to digitise these for long-term preservation, historical research, and future use in numerous applications.

Toitū Te Whenua is involved in a number of programmes for improving safety in the South Pacific.

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Find out about Crown land and property data available from the LINZ Data Service.

You can use, remix, distribute, and build on Toitū Te Whenua data, even commercially, as much as you like via our open Creative Commons license – as long as you credit us as the original source.

The Minister for Land Information is Hon Chris Penk.

Helping determine New Zealand’s electoral boundaries

The transfer of Crown-owned residential red zone land to local leaders in greater Christchurch is now complete, effectively ending our lead responsibilities for the city’s earthquake recovery and regeneration.

Toitū Te Whenua publishes annual and fortnightly Notices to Mariners (NTMs) to advise mariners of matters affecting navigational safety.

The First World War through place names. Features named after Hubert Girdlestone.