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• Place name proposal - Waitematā Railway Station

  The proposal was to alter the existing name for a railway station along the new, underground twin railway line (City Rail Link) through the Auckland CBD.
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• Board members

  The New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa has ten members. We are supported by a Secretariat within Toitū Te Whenua who provide administrative support, research, advice and project delivery.
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• Place name proposal - Herwin Creek

  The proposal is to alter the official place name 5 Mile Creek to Herwin Creek for a small stream that flows from the south end of Richmond Range into Motupiko River, northeast of St. Arnaud.
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• Te Ika-a-Māui tangata whenua place names map index

  You can find specific place names in this list by using CTRL+F to search in following sections, available in both English and Te Reo Māori. 
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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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• Completing a New Zealand place name proposal

  Notes for completing a place name proposal in New Zealand or its offshore islands.
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• Official place names announced, consultation opens for name of Wainuiomata creek

  The New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa has announced decisions from its April hui, including corrections to existing Māori place names and making fifteen undersea feature names official.
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• Place name proposal - Te Waipounamu

  The proposal was to restore the most commonly known and used original Māori names for New Zealand's two main islands - Te Ika-a-Māui and Te Waipounamu - as official alternative names.
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• NZGB notices – November 2022

  Final decisions on assigned, altered, approved, amended, validated and discontinued names.
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• Proposed name change from Clive River to Te Awa o Mokotūāraro

  The New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa met last week to consider place name proposals, including the proposal to change the name of Clive River in Hawke’s Bay to Te Awa o Mokotūāraro.
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• Place name proposal - Te Awa o Mokotūāraro

  The proposal is to alter the official place name Clive River to Te Awa o Mokotūāraro for the river that flows from Pakowhai Road Bridge northeast of Hastings to join the mouth of Ngaruroro River, which flows into Hawke Bay.
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• New names for Auckland railway stations

  Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa New Zealand Geographic Board announces seven new names for Auckland railway stations.
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• NZGB notices – June 2023

  Proposed, approved and altered geographic and undersea feature names.
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• Place Names of the Ancestors - A Māori Oral History Atlas

  This bilingual book tells the stories of early Māori discoverers, explorers and travellers from the first wave of migration waka, and the place names they gave. Each story has a map showing their journeys and the locations of the places named.
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• An introduction to the New Zealand Geographic Board - Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa

  This A3 PDF gives an overview of the New Zealand Geographic Board - Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa - The memorial markers of the landscape.
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• New Zealand Geographic Board (Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Act 2008 factsheet

  The New Zealand Geographic Board (Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Act 2008 updated the Board's roles and responsibilities and replaced the 1946 legislation that previously governed the Board's work. This factsheet gives information about the Act as of 2008.
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• Index of names for Te Wai Pounamu, 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 (hill)

  Proposal to approve Meyer as the official name of the 795m hill in Campbell Hills, approximately 12km east-southeast of Kurow.
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• New Zealand Geographic Board minutes of 9 November 2007 for a proposal to alter the locality name St. Arnaud

  A response to a request for the New Zealand Geographic Board (‘Board’) decision on a proposal to alter the locality name St. Arnaud to ‘Rotoiti’ or ‘Rotoiti South’ or ‘The Village of Rotoiti’ or ‘Rotoiti/St Arnaud’.
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• Place name proposal - Waimarino

  The proposal is to alter the unofficial recorded place name National Park to the official place name Waimarino, for the village at the intersection of State Highway 4 and State Highway 47, on the western edge of Tongariro National Park.
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• Place name proposal - Waimarino Railway Station

  The proposal is to alter the unofficial recorded place name National Park Station to the official place name Waimarino Railway Station for the railway station on the North Island Main Trunk railway line that serves the village proposed to be altered from…
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• Proposal to correct spelling of Franz Josef town and glacier names

  Consultation is now open for a month on a proposal to correct the spelling of Franz Josef in the names of the village and glacier.
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• Place name decisions announced by New Zealand Geographic Board

  Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa New Zealand Geographic Board has announced recent place naming decisions across Aotearoa New Zealand.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• Standard for Crown protected area names - NZGBS60001

  This standard defines the criteria that the New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa will use when reviewing and concurring with proposals from the Department of Conservation to assign or alter official Crown protected area names.
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• Place naming

  How to make a place name proposal or have your say on a proposal. Find our guidelines for consulting with Māori and see recent place name decisions.
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• Consultation on the New Zealand Geographic Board’s three place naming standards

  Consultation took place between 26 June and 26 August 2020 for you to have your say on the New Zealand Geographic Board’s three new standards.
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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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