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The official alternative names for the North Island and South Island.

Restoring and correcting original Māori place names provides visible recognition of a claimant group’s connection to the whenua (land). Place names are often included in the cultural redress part of Treaty of Waitangi claim settlements.

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

In 1991 Wanganui River was altered to Whanganui River, with an ‘h’, and made an official place name.