More links and websites
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‘Maori place-names: with special reference to the great lakes and mountains of the South Island’
This 1905 article by James Cowan in the Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand discusses Māori place names in the South Island.
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‘Some place names of islands of the society group’
This article by Elsdon Best, published in the Journal of the Polynesian Society in 1917, compares a number of Māori place names with those of the Society Islands.
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1000 Māori place names
NZHistory page listing 1000 Māori place names with their translations. Includes a list of common components of place names and help with pronunciation
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Te Haerenga o Kupe
Follow Kupe's journey around Aotearoa and connect with the places he visited.
More suggestions and sources
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Buck, Peter (Te Rangi Hīroa). The coming of the Māori. Wellington: Māori Purposes Fund Board/Whitcombe & Tombs, 1949.
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He korero purakau mo nga taunahanahatanga a nga tupuna: place names of the ancestors, a Maori oral history atlas. Wellington: New Zealand Geographic Board, 1990.
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McKinnon, Malcolm, ed. Bateman New Zealand historical atlas. Auckland: David Bateman, 1997.
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Orbell, Margaret. Hawaiki: a new approach to Maori tradition. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 1991.
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Reed, A. W. Reed book of Māori mythology. Rev. by Ross Calman. Auckland: Reed, 2004.
