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New Zealand Place Names Paperback

By Peter Dowling, Reed, New Zealand Geographic Board

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Releases On 05/11/2025

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From Aotearoa to Zalatown, Whanganui to Whangarei, Cape Reinga/Te Rerenga Wairua to Bluff, New Zealand Place Names is a treasure trove of names for locals and visitors alike. This attractive and portable paperback gives updated definitions for over 850 names with history, origin, meanings, curiosities and more. It includes maps, glossaries, and appendices on prolific namers, great controversies and how to get a place named. A close collaboration with the New Zealand Geographic Board has seen an exchange of information between the authors and the official New Zealand Gazetteer, with this book drawing on the latest approved information and reviewed by experts in the field.

Product code: 9781990042881

ISBN 9781990042881
On Sale Date 05/11/2025
No. Of Pages 228
Dimensions (HxWxD in mm) 234x153x15
From Aotearoa to Zalatown, Whanganui to Whangarei, Cape Reinga/Te Rerenga Wairua to Bluff, New Zealand Place Names is a treasure trove of names for locals and visitors alike. This attractive and portable paperback gives updated definitions for over 850 names with history, origin, meanings, curiosities and more. It includes maps, glossaries, and appendices on prolific namers, great controversies and how to get a place named. A close collaboration with the New Zealand Geographic Board has seen an exchange of information between the authors and the official New Zealand Gazetteer, with this book drawing on the latest approved information and reviewed by experts in the field.