New Zealand Gazetteer of Official Geographic Names

jdm@inmap.net — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:20:22 +0000

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).

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