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• Consulting with Māori when making a place name proposal

  Find out why and how to consult with Māori when making a place name proposal.
  Guidance

  • Place naming
  • Māori and iwi

• Geographic Board celebrates its Māori name

  As part of the 2022 Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori celebrations, the New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa is pleased to announce greater prominence to our te reo Māori name.
  News

  • Māori and iwi
  • Place naming

• Mount Axford officially named after prominent space scientist

  The official name Mount Axford has been given to a previously unnamed mountain in the Kepler Mountains in Fiordland National Park by Minister for Land Information Hon Damien O’Connor.
  News

  • Māori and iwi
  • Place naming

• Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa New Zealand Geographic Board costs for producing the Tangata Whenua Place Names maps

  Information about the costs for producing the Tangata Whenua Place Names maps.
  Resource

  • Māori and iwi
  • Place naming

• Paekākā proposed as official name for inner-city area in Wellington

  The New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa is inviting public submissions on officially assigning Paekākā to the inner-city area of Wellington covering the Botanic Garden precinct, Anderson Park, and Bolton Street Memorial
  News

  • Māori and iwi
  • Place naming

• Call for submissions on Maxwell name change to Pākaraka

  Call for submissions on Maxwell name change to Pākaraka
  News

  • Māori and iwi
  • Place naming

• 820 place name decisions announced

  The New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa has announced 820 place name decisions. These include four official place names in the Darran Mountains, Fiordland National Park:
  News

  • Māori and iwi
  • Place naming

• NZGB Secretary Wendy Shaw recognised at Public Service Day Awards

  Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa New Zealand Geographic Board’s Wendy Shaw has been recognised at the Te Rā Ratonga Tūmatanui - Public Service Day Awards.
  News

  • Māori and iwi
  • Place naming

• Treaty settlement place name proposals

  Only Te Arawhiti (The Office for Māori Crown Relations), on behalf of a Treaty claimant group, can make a proposal to restore or change a place name through a Treaty of Waitangi claims settlement.
  Guidance

  • Place naming
  • Māori and iwi

• Treaty of Waitangi claims settlement place names

  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.
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  • Māori and iwi
  • Place naming

• Name change addresses long-standing Treaty grievance

  A long-standing Treaty grievance for mana whenua will be addressed when the New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa formally changes Maxwell to Pākaraka today.
  News

  • Māori and iwi
  • Place naming

• Place naming proposals and recent decisions

  The New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa made 1,454 official decisions at its April hui on place names in the Tasman and Marlborough regions, as well as for undersea feature names around New Zealand.
  News

  • Māori and iwi
  • Place naming

• Te Ika-a-Māui North Island and Te Waipounamu South Island

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

  • Māori and iwi
  • Place naming

• A Māori Oral History Atlas

  Stories from Place Names of the Ancestors, A Māori Oral History Atlas.
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  • Māori and iwi
  • Place naming

• Whanganui and the ‘h’

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