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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
  • Place naming

• Place name proposal - Onetāhua Rise

  This proposal is to alter Farewell Rise to Onetāhua Rise and make it the official name of a low, broad, elongated undersea rise that extends from Cape Farewell towards Cape Egmont.
  Consultation › place name

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• NZGB generic terms policy

  This policy provides guidance when considering and applying generic terms to geographic names. The primary purpose of the generic term is to describe the feature part of a place name, eg River or Maunga.
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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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• Te Waipounamu tangata whenua place names map index

  Index of original tangata whenua place names, their history, origin or meaning, important events and cultural significance where known, and their equivalent contemporary name or description.
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• Place name proposal - Te Waihorotiu Railway Station

  The proposal was to assign a new official name to a railway station along the new, underground twin railway line (City Rail Link) through the Auckland CBD.
  Consultation › place name

  • Place naming

• Place name proposal - Ryan Creek

  The proposal was to assign Ryan Creek as the official place name of a small stream flowing on Remutaka Range into Ōrongorongo River.
  Consultation › place name

  • Place naming

• Place name proposal - Stewart Creek

  The proposal was to alter the existing unofficial place name Stewarts Creek to an official name, Stewart Creek.
  Consultation › place name

  • Place naming

• Place name proposal - Whangamarino

  The proposal is to officially define the extent (boundary) of the official locality name Whangamarino, which is north of Huntly, as depicted below.
  Consultation › place name

  • Place naming

• 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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• Place name proposal - Whanganui or Wanganui

  This proposal is to change the spelling of Wanganui to Whanganui
  Consultation › place name

  • Place naming

• Place name proposal - Karanga-a-Hape Railway Station

  The proposal was to assign a new official name to a railway station along the new, underground twin railway line (City Rail Link) through the Auckland CBD.
  Consultation › place name

  • Place naming

• Public feedback sought on central Auckland railway station name proposals

  The New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa has opened public consultation on proposed names for four central Auckland railway stations.
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• Consultation closing on for name of new lake near Wairoa

  Consultation on the name for a new lake on Mangapōike River is closing on 16 May
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• NZGB notices – May 2022

  Proposed, approved, adopted, assigned, altered, amended and corrected geographic names
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• North Island range’s original Māori name restored, name change to Omanui / McKinnon Pass on Milford Track

  The New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa has announced a range southwest of Rotorua is now officially named Te Horohoroinga-o-ngā-ringa-o-Kahumatamomoe.
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• Place name proposal - South Island

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

  • Place naming

• Geographic Board opens consultation to change Russell to its original Māori name, Kororāreka

  The New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa is calling for public feedback on the proposal to change the name of the nation’s first capital, Russell, to its original Māori name, Kororāreka.
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