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• Researching place names

  Resources to help you research place names when making a proposal.
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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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• 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 – August 2022

  Proposed railway station names.
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• NZGB notices – September 2022

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

  Proposed, approved, adopted, assigned, altered, amended and corrected 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 – January 2023

  Proposed, approved, altered and amended geographic names.
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• NZGB notices – March 2023

  Final decisions on assigned, altered, validated and discontinued geographic names.
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• NZGB notices – April 2023

  Assigned geographic name.
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• NZGB notices – June 2023

  Proposed, approved and altered geographic and undersea feature names.
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• Tangata whenua place names

  Tangata whenua place names of Aotearoa New Zealand pre European settlement.
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• Maps of Te Waipounamu and Te Ika-a-Māui - first edition 1995

  Tangata whenua place names of Aotearoa New Zealand, pre European settlement.
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• NZGB notices – August 2023

  Proposed, approved and altered geographic and undersea feature names.
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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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• NZGB notices – September 2023

  Proposed and altered geographic feature names
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  • Place naming

• NZGB notices – November 2023

  Proposed, approved and amended geographic feature names.
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  • Place naming

• NZGB notices – April 2024

  Decisions and corrections that were gazetted in April.
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• NZGB notices – November 2018

  Notice of an altered Crown protected area name.
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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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• 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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• 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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• Admiralty Bay

  Cook named many places after men in the British Admiralty because they were the power and money behind his voyages.
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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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• Matakitakiakupe or Cape Palliser

  Alternative official names for this Te Ika-a-Māui North Island feature recognise the great Pacific navigator Kupe and Sir Hugh Palliser, who was a key supporter of Cook in the British Admiralty.
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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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• 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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• Mount Taranaki or Mount Egmont

  Discover the stories of the naming of this maunga.
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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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• Paepae-o-Tū / Bream Tail, Bream Head, Bream Bay

  Named by Cook for a huge haul of fish. In 2012 the original Māori place name Paepae-o-Tū was restored by the Ngāti Manuhiri Treaty of Waitangi settlement.
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