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• Cape Runaway

  Warning shots turned away Māori waka approaching the HMB Endeavour, leading to the naming of this Bay of Plenty feature.
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• NZGB notices – September 2022

  Proposals to alter, approve and assign geographic names.
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• NZGB notices – November 2022

  Final decisions on assigned, altered, approved, amended, validated and discontinued names.
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• NZGB notices – June 2023

  Proposed, approved and altered geographic and undersea feature names.
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• Endeavour Inlet

  Endeavour Inlet, named for Cook’s HMB Endeavour, is one of many memorial names scattered throughout Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui.
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• Cape Farewell

  Cook named this Te Waipounamu South Island feature as the HMB Endeavour departed New Zealand for Australia in March 1770.
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• Putauaki or Mount Edgecumbe

  The volcanic peak Putauaki rises from the plains of the Bay of Plenty. Important to local Māori, Putauaki has many stories associated with it.
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• Rākaihautū - Naming great lakes of the canoe of Aoraki

  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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• Girdlestone Peak, Girdlestone (hill) and Girdlestone Saddle

  The First World War through place names. Features named after Hubert Girdlestone.
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• Ships place names

  Ships of the His Majesty’s Royal Navy became home for many New Zealand sailors.
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• Sturdee Peak, Main Divide

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

  Soldiers looked to their commanders for inspiration, confidence and leadership.
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• Features named after Admiral John Jellicoe

  The First World War through place names. Features named after Admiral John Jellicoe.
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• Board documents, policies and standards

  Find our guiding legislation, standards for place naming, our place naming strategy and policies, and our Annual Report.
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• Types of geographic features

  Discover over 200 geographic feature types through simple drawings and descriptions, with their terms in Māori and English.
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• About Cook's voyage and place names

  Learn about Cook’s voyages, the men who served under him and the New Zealand places they named.
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• NZGB notices – June 2022

  Proposed, assigned, altered, and discontinued geographic names
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• 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
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• Te Ika-a-Māui North Island and Te Waipounamu South Island

  The official alternative names for the North Island and South Island.
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  • Māori and iwi
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• Waihou River and Firth of Thames

  This important waterway to tangata whenua was later named after its similarity to London’s River Thames.
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• Tūranganui-a-Kiwa / Poverty Bay

  Find out how Cook’s name for this bay affected its people.
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• NZGB notices – November 2023

  Proposed, approved and amended geographic feature names.
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• Tolaga Bay

  Tolaga Bay is one of the great linguistic mysteries of New Zealand’s place names.
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• Approving unofficial place names

  Information for councils and mana whenua about approving recorded (unofficial) Māori place names as official.
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• NZGB notices – May 2022

  Proposed, approved, adopted, assigned, altered, amended and corrected geographic names
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• NZGB notices – April 2023

  Assigned geographic name.
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• A Māori Oral History Atlas

  Stories from Place Names of the Ancestors, A Māori Oral History Atlas.
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  • Māori and iwi
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• Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui

  Named by Cook after the wife of King George III, Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui was officially dual named in 2014 through two Treaty of Waitangi settlements.
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• Tohoraha / Mount Camel

  Originally named by Kupe who took it for a whale (tohoraha being the southern right whale), Cook later named this feature after a camel.
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• Doubtless Bay

  While Cook had no doubts about the nature of this feature, he didn’t know that French explorer Jean François Marie de Surville had anchored in Doubtless Bay for two weeks in 1769 before sailing for Peru.
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• Cape Terawhiti and Cape Koamaru

  Find out why uncertainty about the spelling and meanings of Cape Terawhiti and Cape Koamaru persist today.
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• Young Nicks Head / Te Kurī and Te Kuri a Paoa / Young Nick’s Head National Historic Reserve

  Paoa was captain of the Horouta waka and his name and exploits are featured across the east coast of Te Ika-a-Māui North Island. Cook named it after the 12-year-old crewman who first spotted land from HMB Endeavor.
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