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• NZGB notices – August 2022

  Proposed railway station names.
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• Consultation opens on proposed place names Ryan Creek, Stewart Crags and Stewart Creek

  The New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa has opened public consultation on three proposals for official place names.
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• Place name proposal - North Island

  The proposal was to make the current English name for the North Island official.
  Consultation › place name

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• East Coast landslide lake now officially Lake Te Horonui

  The New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa has announced that the lake near Wairoa, recently formed by a major landslide, now has an official name – Lake Te Horonui.
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• Place names announced by the New Zealand Geographic Board

  The New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa has announced recent decisions, including corrections to existing place names and validating seven Crown reserve names as official.
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• NZGB notices – January 2023

  Proposed, approved, altered and amended geographic names.
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• Completing a proposal for an Antarctic place name

  Notes for completing a proposal for an Antarctic place name.
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• Place name proposal - Te Kakau Bank

  The proposal is to alter Kaukau Bank to Te Kakau Bank and make it the official name of an undersea bank offshore from the southeast coast of the North Island approximately 5km east of Te Kakau Point.
  Consultation › place name

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• Te Awa o Mokotūāraro name confirmed for Hawke’s Bay river

  Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa New Zealand Geographic Board announces today that Te Awa o Mokotūāraro is now the new official name for Clive River in Hawke’s Bay.
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• Te Waipounamu tangata whenua place names map

  This map shows the place names given by tangata whenua throughout Te Waipounamu, before European settlement
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• Asia and Pacific, United Nations map names

  1st edition, 1995. Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa New Zealand Geographic Board contributed to a revised map and gazetteer compiled for the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) Asia South East and Pacific South West Division.
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• Map of Te Wai Pounamu, The Land and its People

  A map of Māori place and feature names in Te Waipounamu South Island circa 1840. The index has their meanings where known, and their equivalent contemporary names, if any.
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• Index of names for Te Ika a Maui, The Land and its People

  Index of names, their meanings where known and their equivalent names on contemporary mapping.
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• Place name proposal - Meyer Pass

  Proposal to assign Meyer Pass as the official name of the pass at ~700m on Meyers Pass Road on Campbell Hills.
  Consultation › place name

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• New Zealand Geographic Board annual report 2022/23

  Mount Misery to Maungatūtū, Clive River to Te Awa o Mokotūāraro and naming the newly formed lake Lake Te Horonui are just some of the decisions highlighted in the Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa New Zealand Geographic Board 2022/23 Annual Report – available…
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• Place name proposal - Manawatū District

  The proposal is to alter the official place name Manawatu District to Manawatū District for the area administered by Manawatu District Council.
  Consultation › place name

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• Excerpt from the Geographic Board’s minutes of 22 June 2023

  This Official Information Act (OIA) response released an excerpt from the 22 June 2023 minutes of Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa New Zealand Geographic Board relating to the proposal to alter Russell to Kororāreka.
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• Amendment of Ōpōtiki District Council name under the Local Government Act 2002

  Updated name for Ōpōtiki District Council
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• Amendment of Ōtorohanga District Council name under the Local Government Act 2002

  Updated name for Ōtorohanga District Council
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• Acheron Passage and Resolution Island

  Two journeys of discovery led to the naming of these features in Fiordland’s Tamatea / Dusky Sound.
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• South Cape / Whiore

  Botanist Joseph Banks’ hope of New Zealand being the ‘great southern continent’ were dashed when the HMB Endeavour rounded the southernmost point of Stewart Island / Rakiura and only ocean lay beyond. In 1998 the Ngāi Tahu Treaty settlement restored the…
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• Banks Peninsula

  Named after the naturalist Joseph Banks, Banks Peninsula was shown on maps as an island for forty years until an 1809 survey.
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• Cannibal Cove

  While the HMB Endeavour was under repair in Meretoto / Ship Cove, Cook took a small boat and crew to explore Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui.
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• Mount Taranaki or Mount Egmont

  Discover the stories of the naming of this maunga.
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• Bay of Plenty

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

  Tuia - Encounters 250: Cook’s place names around New Zealand - Dusky Sound
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• Place names from Cook’s voyages

  The stories of over 260 place names associated with Lieutenant James Cook’s voyages to New Zealand in the late 1700s.
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• Tōhē - A Last Journey

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

  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.
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• Gallipoli Heights, Antarctica

  The First World War through place names. Gallipoli Heights, Antarctica.
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• Forrest Hill, North Shore

  The First World War through place names. Forrest Hill, North Shore.
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• Cradock Channel, Hauraki Gulf / Tīkapa Moana

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