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International place naming
The NZGB engages with international naming authorities on Antarctic, undersea, regional and global place naming matters.
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Place name proposal - Whanganui District
This proposal is for the alteration of an official name - from Wanganui District to Whanganui District.
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NZGB notices – August 2022
Proposed railway station names.
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Place name proposal - Ngākōroa Railway Station
The proposal was to assign a new official name to a railway station to be built in south Auckland.
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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.
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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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Completing a proposal for an Antarctic place name
Notes for completing a proposal for an Antarctic place name.
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Te Ika-a-Māui tangata whenua place names map
This map shows the place names given by tangata whenua throughout Te Ika-a-Māui, before European settlement
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Place name proposal - Rangiriri
The proposal is to alter the recorded unofficial locality names Rangiriri, Rangiriri West and Churchill to the one official name Rangiriri with an officially defined extent (boundary) as depicted below.
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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.
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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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Maps of Te Waipounamu and Te Ika-a-Māui - second edition 2023
Tangata whenua place names of Aotearoa New Zealand, pre European settlement. Download the second edition of these maps and learn about the updates made in 2023.
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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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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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NZGB notices – January 2023
Proposed, approved, altered and amended geographic names.
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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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Place name proposal - Rangitīkei District
The proposal was to change Rangitikei District to Rangitīkei District for the local authority district that Rangitikei District Council administers.
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Place name proposal - Abbotts Creek
This proposal was to change the name Abbots Creek to Abbotts Creek, for the stream that flows east from Remutaka Pass to Featherston, in south Wairarapa.
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NZGB notices – June 2024
Proposed, adopted, discontinued and corrected geographic feature names
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Petone name change proposal
Consultation opens today on a proposal to correct the spelling of the Lower Hutt suburb Petone to Pito One.
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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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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 here in both English and te reo Māori.
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Place name proposal - Franz Joseph / Kā Roimata-o-Hinehukatere
The proposal is to alter the official place name Franz Josef Glacier/Kā Roimata o Hine Hukatere to Franz Joseph Glacier / Kā Roimata-o-Hinehukatere for the glacier that flows from a large basin in the Southern Alps/Kā Tiritiri o te Moana to its terminus between Fritz Range and Baird Range.
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Place name proposal - Manawatū District
The proposal was to alter the official place name Manawatu District to Manawatū District for the area administered by Manawatu District Council.
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Centenary milestones of the New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa
Notable moments in the 100 year history of place naming in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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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.
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Celebrating 100 years of place naming
Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa New Zealand Geographic Board is marking 100 years of official place naming in New Zealand, its offshore islands, Antarctica and on the sea floor.
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Appointment of a member to the New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa
Details regarding NZGB nomination process for the appointment of Dr Michael Abbott as notified in Gazette Notice (2024-go4025) dated 19 August 2024.
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Place name proposal - Hess Glacier
The proposal is to alter Hesse Glacier to Hess Glacier and make it the official name of the glacier southeast of Marion Tower and south of Snowdrift Range, approximately 50km northwest of Wānaka.
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Place name proposal - Pukekōwhai, Ngā Māipi-e-Waru-a-Kupe, Puketihia
These proposals are for three peaks on the western edge of Ngāumu Forest, west of Riversdale Beach (locality) in the Wairarapa.
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