Story: Tapa whenua – naming places

More links and websites

• 
  ‘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.

• 
  ‘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.

• 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

• Te Haerenga o Kupe

  Follow Kupe's journey around Aotearoa and connect with the places he visited.

More suggestions and sources

• Buck, Peter (Te Rangi Hīroa). The coming of
  the Māori. Wellington: Māori Purposes Fund
  Board/Whitcombe & Tombs, 1949.
• 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.
• McKinnon, Malcolm, ed. Bateman New Zealand
  historical atlas. Auckland: David Bateman,
  1997.
• Orbell, Margaret. Hawaiki: a new approach to
  Maori tradition. Christchurch: Canterbury
  University Press, 1991.
• Reed, A. W. Reed book of Māori
  mythology. Rev. by Ross Calman. Auckland:
  Reed, 2004.