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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.

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).

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.

A LINZ licence is required to access bulk personal data via the LINZ Data Service (LDS).

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.

Chloe Samaratunga is studying for a Bachelor of Advanced Science with Auckland University of Technology (AUT).

Jobs for Nature is a $1.219 billion government programme set up in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to support people into nature-based employment. We also work with councils, community groups, landowners and other government agencies to get the best results in the battle against pests and weeds.

Kasey Oomen is a resilience advisor at Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand.

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.

Ships of the His Majesty’s Royal Navy became home for many New Zealand sailors.

The First World War through place names. Sturdee Peak, Main Divide.