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New Zealand Gazetteer of Official Geographic Names
(E?)(L?) http://www.linz.govt.nz/placenames/find-names/nz-gazetteer-official-names
The New Zealand Gazetteer of Official Geographic Names (the Gazetteer) is published by the New Zealand Geographic Board Nga Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa (NZGB). The Gazetteer contains all official names for features within the NZGB's jurisdiction.
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The Gazetteer is divided into six pages based on the type of place or feature.
- •New Zealand (xls 2MB) or (PDF 801KB) - updated 25 May 2012
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List of New Zealand place names and their meanings
(E?)(L?) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Zealand_place_names_and_their_meanings
Placenames in New Zealand derive largely from British and Maori origins. An overview of naming practices can be found at New Zealand place names.
- Akaroa - Kai Tahu Maori for "Long Harbour".
- Alexandra, New Zealand - named after Alexandra of Denmark.
- Aoraki/Mount Cook - this Kai Tahu Maori name is often glossed as "Cloud Piercer", but literally it consists of ao "cloud" and raki "sky". The English component is in honour of Captain James Cook.
- Aramoana - Maori for "pathway to (or beside) the sea".
- Auckland - in honour of George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland, a patron of William Hobson
- Balclutha from Scottish Gaelic "Baile Chluaidh" town on the Clyde
- Balfour - named after either a Waimea Company employee or a local surveyor.
- Barrett Reef - named after Richard Barrett, a 19th century whaler and trader.
- Birdling's Flat - named for the first Pakeha family to farm in the area, the Birdling family.
- Blackball - named after the Black Ball Shipping Line, which leased land in the area for coal mining.
- Brighton - named after Brighton, England.
- Burkes Pass - named after Michael John Burke, who discovered the pass in 1855.
- Burnham - named after Burnham Beeches, Buckinghamshire.
- Cape Farewell - named due to being the last part of New Zealand seen by Captain James Cook and his crew in 1770 before beginning their homeward voyage.
- Cape Kidnappers - named after an attempt by local Maori to abduct one of the crew of Capt. James Cook's ship Endeavour in 1769.
- Carterton - named after Charles Rooking Carter, settler advocate and provincial politician.
- Christchurch - after Christ Church, one of the colleges of the University of Oxford in England.
- Clive - named after Robert Clive.
- Clutha River from "Cluaidh", the Scottish Gaelic for the Clyde
- Coalgate - named as the "gateway" to coalfields in inland Canterbury.
- Collingwood - after Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood.
- Cook Strait - in honour of Captain James Cook.
- Coonoor - named after Coonoor, India.
- Cromwell - origin unknown, possibly after Oliver Cromwell.
- Crooked River - named for its erratic, meandering path across plains near Lake Brunner.
- Dannevirke - named after the Danevirke, a defensive formation constructed across the neck of the Jutland peninsula in the Viking Age. Its name means "Danes' works" in the Danish language.
- Dargaville - named after timber merchant and politician Joseph McMullen Dargaville (1837-1896).
- Douglas - named after a member of the Crown's surveying party.
- Eyreton and West Eyreton - for Edward John Eyre, who acted as lieutenant governor of the South Island when it was known as New Munster.
- Fairlie - named after Fairlie, North Ayrshire, Scotland.
- Foveaux Strait - named after Joseph Foveaux, who was Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales when the strait was discovered in 1804.
- Gladstone - named after British Prime Minister William Gladstone.
- Glenorchy - likely after Glen Orchy, Scotland.
- Gore - for an early Governor of New Zealand, Sir Thomas Gore Browne.
- Grey River and Greytown - named after politician George Edward Grey.
- Greymouth - named for its location at the mouth of the Grey River.
- Haast - named after Julius von Haast, a German geologist knighted for his services to New Zealand geology.
- Hamilton - renamed after Captain Fane Charles Hamilton, commander of HMS Esk, who was killed in the battle of Gate Pa, Tauranga.
- Hampden - named after English politician John Hampden.
- Hauraki Gulf - Maori for north wind
- Hawke's Bay - in honour of Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke of Towton
- Inchbonnie - is a hybrid of Lowland Scots, bonnie meaning "pretty" and Scottish Gaelic innis meaning island, often anglicised as "Inch"
- Invercargill - from Scottish Gaelic inbhir anglicised "Inver" meaning a confluence and William Cargill founder of Otago.
- Kapiti Coast and Kapiti Island - Kapiti means "joining" or "boundary"; the island was at one time the boundary between the rohe (territories) of two Maori iwi.
- Kerikeri - not definitively known. See Kerikeri#Origins and naming for several possibilities.
- King Country - district where the Maori King Movement led by King Tawhiao flourished in the 1860s
- Kirwee - named after Karwi, India by retired British Army colonel De Renzie Brett.
- Kohimarama - properly 'Kohimaramara' - to gather up (kohi) the acraps or chips (maramara).
- Lake Hayes - originally Hays Lake and named for D. Hay, who came to the area looking for sheep country in 1859.
- Lake Te Anau - named after Te Ana-au Caves, "the cave of swirling water".
- Lake Waihola - from the southern Maori form of the words wai hora, meaning "spread-out waters".
- Levin - from a director of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company, which created the town to service its railway.
- Macetown - named after its founders, the brothers Charles, Harry, and John Mace.
- Mackenzie Basin (or Mackenzie Country) - named by and after James Mackenzie, a Scottish-born shepherd and sheep thief who herded his stolen flocks to the largely unpopulated basin.
- Manukau - may mean "wading birds", although it has been suggested that the name of the harbour after which the city is named was originally Manuka, a type of native tree
- Martinborough - after the town's founder, John Martin.
- Masterton - after local pioneer Joseph Masters.
- Mataura River - from the Maori word mataura, "reddish".
- Maungati - Maori for "mountain of cabbage tree".
- Milford Sound - named after Milford Haven, Wales. The Maori name, Piopiotahi, means "first native thrush".
- Millers Flat - named after an early European settler of the area, Walter Miller.
- Moeraki - usually translated from Maori as "sleepy sky"; though a better translation might be "sleep by day".
- Naseby, New Zealand - named after Naseby, England.
- Nelson - in honour of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
- Ngapara - derived from the Maori name for the limestone plateaus in the area.
- Ophir - after gold was discovered in the area, it was named after where King Solomon obtained the gold to sheath the Temple in Jerusalem.
- Otago - Anglicised from the Maori name Otakou, a kainga (village) east of present-day Otago Harbour, meaning "place of red ochre".
- Otematata - Maori for "place of good flint".
- Paerau - Maori for "hundred ridges".
- Papatoetoe - papa means a flat, and toetoe is a very native pampas grass
- Plimmerton - from John Plimmer, Wellington pioneer, director of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company, which created the seaside resort to help boost its railway; central Wellington has Plimmer's Steps.
- Porirua - meaning the two rising tides
- Pukerua Bay - puke: hill, rua: two - location is on a saddle between two hills
- Rakiura - raki: sky, ura: red - thought to be a reference to the Aurora Australis and unusual sunsets at these latitudes. [1], [2]
- Ranfurly - named after Uchter Knox, 5th Earl of Ranfurly, former Governor-General of New Zealand.
- Raumati - Maori for summer.
- Sinclair Wetlands - named after local farmer Horace Sinclair.
- Taieri River - probably from the Maori taieri or taiari "a species of shark" or tai "sea, tide" plus ari. Ari has several meanings including "a species of shark" and "the moon on the eleventh day".
- Tasman - district named from the bay name, in honour of Dutchman Abel Tasman, commander of first European ship to sight the country. Also name of Mount Tasman, Tasman Glacier and Tasman National Park
- Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu "the summit where Tamatea, who travelled about the land, played the flute to his beloved." This hill in Hawke's Bay is credited by The Guinness Book of World Records with having the longest place name in the world.
- Tauranga - a sheltered anchorage for waka, (canoes)
- Tauweru River - Maori for "hanging in clusters"; the town of Tauweru is named after the river.
- Te Raekaihau Point - Te Rae-kai-hau - The literal meaning of the name is ‘the headland that eats the wind’ (see Best, 8, Pt.5, p.174).
- Te Wai Pounamu (the South Island) - the greenstone water or 'the water of greenstone' where 'wai' can also refer to rivers or streams or other bodies of water. It has been surmised that the name evolved from Te Wahi Pounamu, meaning the greenstone place.
- Te Whiti o Tu - Maori for "Tu's crossing".
- Timaru - the Maori Language Commission renders this as Te Tihi-o-Maru, 'the peak of Maru'. Others have suggested that it derives from te maru, "place of shelter", or from ti, "cabbage tree", and maru, "shady".
- Tiniroto - Maori for "many lakes".
- Waiheke Island - Waiheke means cascading or ebbing water.
- Waikanae - Maori for "the waters of the grey mullet".
- Waikato, Waikato River - Maori for "flowing water".
- Wainuiomata - "wai": water, river; "nui": big; "o Mata": of Mata. Mata's big stream
- Waipori River - presumably from Maori wai, "water", and pouri, "dark".
- Whangarei - whanga: harbour, rei: cherished possession
- Whitianga - 'crossing' or 'ford', from 'Te Whitianga-a-Kupe', Kupe's crossing place.
- Wellington - in honour of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
- Whitby - from the town of Whitby in Yorkshire England, home of James Cook
- Whitecliffs - named after terraced cliffs above the Selwyn River
"Thomson's Barnyard"
Many of the locations in the southern South Island of New Zealand, especially those in Central Otago and the Maniototo, were named by John Turnbull Thomson, who had surveyed the area in the late 1850s. Many of these placenames are of Northumbrian origin, as was Thomson himself.
There is a widespread belief that the naming of many places was through a disagreement with the New Zealand surveying authorities. It has long been suggested that Thomson originally intended to give either classical or traditional Maori names to many places, but these names were refused. In response, Thomson gave prosaic Northumbrian names to them, often simply in the form of a Northumbrian dialectic name for an animal[1] The Maniototo region around the town of Ranfurly is rife with such names as Kyeburn, Gimmerburn, Hoggetburn, and Wedderburn as a result, and the area is still occasionally referred to as "Thomson's Barnyard" or the "Farmyard Patch".
External links and sources
- ^ Reed, A.W. (1975) Place names of New Zealand. Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed. ISBN 0-589-00933-8
- Land Information NZ (LINZ) An authoritative list of New Zealand placenames, used for NZ government maps, is available in various forms. The list does not cover their meanings.
- NZ Geographic Board Nga Pou Taunaha Aotearoa - Free download of 55,000 New Zealand placenames. Note: Special care is required, for instance the geographic coordinates are NOT the centroid of the placename, they are the lower left corner of the original label scan from the 260 series maps (1:50 000 Topographic hard copy).
- "Place names map". Maori Language Commission. http://www.tetaurawhiri.govt.nz/english/resources_e/placenames.shtml. Retrieved on 2007-07-11.
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