New Zealand Gazetteer of Official Geographic Names
The New Zealand Gazetteer of Official Geographic Names (the Gazetteer) is published by the New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa (NZGB). The Gazetteer contains all official names for features within the NZGB's jurisdiction.
The Gazetteer includes the following information for each official name:
- official name
- gazette or statutory reference
- type of feature or place (eg town, mountain, etc)
- position (in terms of the New Zealand Transverse Mercator 2000 (NZTM2000) projection and New Zealand Geodetic Datum 2000 (NZGD2000))
- description (where available)
- extent (where available).
Download the Gazetteer
The Gazetteer is divided into six pages based on the type of place or feature.
- New Zealand (xls 2.0MB) or (PDF 853KB) - updated 1 March 2011
- Offshore islands (xls 165KB) or (PDF 138KB) - updated 25 January 2011
- Railway lines (xls 43KB) or (PDF 84KB) - updated 1 March 2011
- Antarctic (xls 1.74MB) or (PDF 1.08MB) - updated 9 September 2010
- Crown Protected Area (xls 730KB) or (PDF 311KB) - updated 1 March 2011
- Undersea (xls KB) or (PDF 310KB) - updated 16 December 2010
Macrons
A number of official names contain macrons. While the Gazetteer shows the macrons for these names, care needs to be taken to ensure that they are retained when the names are moved between software packages. The NZGB has compiled a list of official names with macrons to assist in mapping, charting, signage, reporting, legislation, or other official documents.
Names not in the Gazetteer
There are many other unofficial geographic feature names in New Zealand. Get help finding names.