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• Consulting with Māori when making a place name proposal

  Find out why and how to consult with Māori when making a place name proposal.
  Guidance

  • Place naming
  • Māori and iwi

• History of the Board

  Learn about how the New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa came into existence.
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• Place name maps and publications

  Publications about traditional and current place naming produced by the New Zealand Geographic Board.
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• About the New Zealand Geographic Board

  Making place names official enables clear communication and connections between people, places, and information. They identify where we are as we go about our everyday business.
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• District or region name change proposal

  Councils can propose to change the name of their district or region. When the name of a district or region is changed, it also changes the legal name of its council.
  Guidance

  • Place naming

• New Zealand Geographic Board Strategy 2020-2025

  Our strategy sets out our goals and objectives and how we will achieve them.
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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.
  Consultation › place name

  • Place naming

• Place name proposal - Lake Mangapōike

  This proposal was to assign Lake Mangapōike as the official name of an unnamed newly formed permanent lake on Mangapoike River, approximately 37km southwest of Gisborne and 30km northeast of Wairoa.
  Consultation › place name

  • Place naming

• Place name proposal - Maungatūtū

  This proposal is to alter the existing unofficial recorded name Mount Misery to Maungatūtū for a 478m hill approximately 10km south of Tauranga.
  Consultation › place name

  • Place naming

• Place name proposal - Mount Milne

  This proposal is to correct the position of Mount Milne from NZTopo50-CA09 056461 to NZTopo50-CB09 054458.
  Consultation › place name

  • Place naming

• Place name proposal - Pākaraka

  This proposal is to alter the official place name Maxwell to Pākaraka for a locality on State Highway 3 approximately 19km west-northwest of Whanganui.
  Consultation › place name

  • Place naming

• Place name proposal - Waihemo / Shag River

  This proposal is to alter the existing official name Shag River (Waihemo) to Waihemo / Shag River.
  Consultation › place name

  • Place naming

• Place name proposal - Mount Tarewai

  This proposal is to correct the position of Mount Tarewai from NZTopo50-CB09 054458 to NZTopo50-CB09 052455.
  Consultation › place name

  • Place naming

• 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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• 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.
  Consultation › place name

  • Place naming

• Poor Knights Islands

  Mystery surrounds why Cook named this island group ‘Poor Knights’.
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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.
  Consultation › place name

  • Place naming

• 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…
  Consultation › place name

  • Place naming

• 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 naming

• 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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• Researching place names

  Resources to help you research place names when making a proposal.
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  • Place naming

• Mount Taranaki or Mount Egmont

  Discover the stories of the naming of this maunga.
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  • Place naming

• Completing a proposal for an Antarctic place name

  Notes for completing a proposal for an Antarctic place name.
  Guidance

  • Place naming

• New Zealand Geographic Board hui and minutes

  We meet 3 times a year to consider place names.
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• Geographic Board opens consultation on proposed railway station names south of Auckland

  The New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa has opened public consultation on proposed names for three new railway stations around Drury, south of Auckland. The proposed names are:
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  • Place naming

• Geographic Board celebrates its Māori name

  As part of the 2022 Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori celebrations, the New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa is pleased to announce greater prominence to our te reo Māori name.
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  • Māori and iwi
  • Place naming

• Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa 2021/22 Annual Report

  Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa New Zealand Geographic Board has published its annual report for 2021/22.
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  • Place naming

• Minimum requirements for geographic name proposals

  This policy specifies the New Zealand Geographic Board’s requirements for place or feature name proposals, including evidence required.
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• Place name proposal - Kororāreka

  The proposal is to alter the existing unofficial recorded name Russell to Kororāreka for the small township in the Bay of Islands, on the east coast of Northland Region.
  Consultation › place name

  • Place naming

• Recent place names announced by Geographic Board

  Several place names have recently been made official, including amendments to existing names, some made official under fast-track, and a changed name for Stewart Crags.
  News

  • Place naming

• NZGB notices – March 2023

  Final decisions on assigned, altered, validated and discontinued geographic names.
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