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Discover the story of Te Moana-a-Toitehuatahi, later named Bay of Plenty by Cook in 1769.

Tuia - Encounters 250: Cook’s place names around New Zealand - Dusky Sound

The stories of over 260 place names associated with Lieutenant James Cook’s voyages to New Zealand in the late 1700s.

Ben is a Location Data Analyst at Land Information New Zealand.

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

In applying for a Toitū Te Whenua tertiary GIS scholarship you must agree to accept the following terms and conditions

Alan Scandrett is a Geography Honours student focussing on GIS at the University of Auckland (Summer Intern – Watercare 2017/18, LINZ 2016/17)

Understanding the value of location and how the use of location information can benefit the world and the people in it needs to start at an early age.

Are your studies getting you to the right place? Add the location factor to your qualification!

The First World War through place names. Paschendale Ridge in Westland National Park / Tai Poutini National Park, Passchendaele Ice Fall and Passchendaele Peak in South Main Divide.

The First World War through place names. Gallipoli Heights, Antarctica.

The First World War through place names. Forrest Hill, North Shore.

The First World War through place names. Cradock Channel, Hauraki Gulf / Tīkapa Moana.

In times of war, military units become a family that was never forgotten by the men and women who served within them.

The First World War through place names. Anzac Bay at Bowentown, at Waiheke Island, and near Aoraki/Mount Cook.

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Learn about how the New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa came into existence.

Publications about traditional and current place naming produced by the New Zealand Geographic Board.

Making place names official enables clear communication and connections between people, places, and information. They identify where we are as we go about our everyday business.

The Overseas Investment team at Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand ensures responsible overseas investment in New Zealand.

Learn about the history of the Overseas Investment Office (OIO) and the former Overseas Investment Commission (OIC).

Find out about the NZTopo database data model, and read its accuracy statements and technical information.

Topographic data is information about the features of the land. We manage the LINZ Topographic database, which helps produce our wide range of topomaps.

The NHN ensures that important precise levelling control marks are retained and that geometric heights are determined for new control marks when they are established. This enables users to connect their datasets to the official geodetic datum.

Download free images of maps of the Antarctic’s Ross Sea region and the Darwin / Hatherton glacier region.

A map showing Crown pastoral leases (current and former) across the South Island.

We administer some forestry land on behalf of the Crown, safeguarding it for use in Treaty of Waitangi settlements.

Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand was formed in 1996 following the restructure of the Department of Survey and Land Information.

Tidal streams are the periodic horizontal movement of water. These have the same astronomical causes as tides, which move in a vertical direction.

Sea level data recorded at the monitoring sites shown on the map is available for download.

The New Zealand Coordinate Conversions form can be used to convert coordinates between datums, projections and height coordinate systems used in New Zealand.

We meet 3 times a year to consider place names.