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Proposed, assigned, altered, discontinued, amended and corrected geographic feature names

This release (62) comprises selected updates to 27 Topo50_NZ sheets and 4 Topo250_NZ sheets

Important survey marks can be disturbed, damaged or destroyed simply because people are unaware of them. Marks below ground level are most at risk as they are practically invisible to those working nearby.

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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Endeavour Inlet, named for Cook’s HMB Endeavour, is one of many memorial names scattered throughout Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui.

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.