Naming Aotearoa

Collection items

• Place names: Abel Tasman

  29 Dec 2009

  New Zealand, Cape Maria van Diemen, Three Kings Island, Tasman Bay, Abel Tasman Park, Murderers Bay: with Peter Dowling, revising editor of AW Reed's dictionary of New Zealand place names. Audio

• Place names: abbreviated

  10 Jan 2012

  Taupo, Rotorua, Lake Rotoiti, Motueka, BJ Peak, Blimit: with Peter Dowling. Audio

• Place names: amusing names

  21 Jan 2010

  Nightcaps, Nonoti, Oilskin Pass, Skulkers Bay, Dismal Swamp, Manui: with Peter Dowling, revising editor of AW Reed's 'Place Names of New Zealand'. Audio

• Place names: Auckland

  5 Jan 2010

  Tamaki Makaurau, Auckland, Mount Eden, Manukau, Waitemata, One Tree Hill, Ponsonby, Mission Bay, Okahu Bay: with Peter Dowling, revising editor of AW Reed's 'Place Names of New Zealand'. Audio

• Place names: Biblical

  18 Jan 2010

  Sodom and Gomorrah, Devil's Punchbowl, Devil's Armchair, Devil's Staircase, Paradise, Paradise Flat, Purgatory, Bible Terrace, Hiruharama, Epiha, Kenana, Canaan Downs: with Peter Dowling, revising… Audio

• Place names: Captain Cook

  30 Dec 2009

  Cape Egmont, Cape Farewell, Cook Strait, Banks Peninsula, Mount Cook, Doubtful Sound, Young Nick's Head, Cape Kidnappers, Bay of Plenty, Poverty Bay, East Cape: with Peter Dowling, revising editor of… Audio

• Place names: recent changes

  27 Dec 2012

  Peter Dowling with the latest changes in place names. Audio

• Place names: children

  8 Jan 2013

  Peter Dowling on the links between place names and children: Children's Bay, Nga Tamariki o Hikura, Young Nick's Head, Kupe's daughters. Audio

• Place names: Christchurch

  15 Jan 2010

  The etymological and cultural origins of the garden city's names: Bryndwr, Glandovey Road, Taylors Mistake, Murrays Mistake, Hoon Hay, New Brighton, Shirley. Audio

• Place names: Christmas and New Year

  28 Dec 2010

  With Peter Dowling, revising editor of AW Reed's dictionary of New Zealand place names. Audio

• Place names: the coast

  13 Jan 2012

  Te Tai Tamatāne, Te Tai Tamahine, Te Moana-Nu-a-Kiwa, Te Tai-o-Rehua, Te Tai Hauāuru, Te Tai Rāwhiti, Te Tai Poutini, Te Ara-a-Kiwa, Te Tai o Arai Te Uru, Raukawa Moana. Audio

• Places names: sites of controversy

  4 Jan 2011

  Rimutaka, South Ridge on Aoraki Mount Cook: with Peter Dowling, revising editor of AW Reed's 'Place Names of New Zealand'. Audio

• Place names: dastardly names

  3 Jan 2012

  Blunt and downright nasty names with Peter Dowling: Mount Misery, Mount Horrible, Dark Peak, Bad Passage, Broke Adrift Passage, Useless Bay, Cape Foulwind, Ngunguru. Audio

• Place names: dual Maori/European names

  20 Jan 2011

  Aoraki/Mt Cook, Taranaki/Mount Egmont, Whananui/Wanganui, Piopiotahi/Milford Sounds, Matiu/Somes Island, Makarora/Ward Island, Te Moeka o Tuawe/Fox Glacier: with Peter Dowling, revising editor of AW… Audio

• Place names: Dunedin

  19 Jan 2010

  The Edinburgh of the south - Musselburgh, St Claire, St Kilda, Macandrew Bay: with Peter Dowling, revising editor of AW Reed's 'Place Names of New Zealand'. Audio

• Place names: forces of nature

  6 Jan 2011

  Falling Mountain, Marewa, Onekawa, Rangipo Desert, Te Tangi-o-Hinerau: with Peter Dowling, revising editor of AW Reed's 'Place Names of New Zealand'. Audio

• Place names: German influence

  10 Jan 2013

  Peter Dowling talks about the German influence on our place names: Franz Josef Glacier, Agassiz Glacier, Mount Kinkel, Liebig Range, Hochstetter, Blenheim, German Bay, Ransau, Neudorf. Audio

• Place names: Governors

  13 Jan 2010

  Hobson, Grey, Eyre, Gore: with Peter Dowling, editor of AW Reed's 'Place Names of New Zealand'. Audio

• Place names: Hawaiki

  30 Dec 2010

  Titirangi, Tawhitinui, Whangara, Hikurangi: with Peter Dowling, revising editor of AW Reed's 'Place Names of New Zealand'. Audio

• Place names: Kupe

  28 Dec 2009

  Seatoun, Te Tūranganui-o-Kupe, Mana Island, Te Mana o Kupe ki Aotearoa, Hokianga Harbour: with Peter Dowling, revising editor of AW Reed's dictionary of New Zealand place names. Audio

• Place names: marae

  3 Jan 2013

  Peter Dowling looks at the names of marae: Taputapuatea, Tūrangawaewae. Audio

• Place names: Māori contractions

  14 Jan 2010

  Kaikōura, Taupō, Hahei, Kaiteretere: with Peter Dowling, revising editor of AW Reed's 'Place Names of New Zealand'. Audio

• Place names: Māori myths & legends with a love theme

  4 Jan 2010

  Lovers Leap, Māori Leap, Morere, Omanawanui, Erangi Point, Te Waharoa Point, Waioriri Stream: with Peter Dowling, revising editor of AW Reed's dictionary of New Zealand place names. Audio

• Place names: deciphering te reo Māori place names

  13 Jan 2011

  Te, Puke, Awa, Mutu, Maunga, Roto, Wai, Nui, O: with Peter Dowling, revising editor of AW Reed's 'Place Names of New Zealand'. Audio

• Place names: murders and cannibal feasts

  6 Jan 2010

  Umutaoroa, Murderers Point, Deadman's Creek, Dobson, Maungatapu, Murderers Rock: with Peter Dowling, revising editor of AW Reed's 'Place Names of New Zealand'. Audio