Skip to main content

Kōrero: Place names

Animal names

Image
Animal names

Surveyor John Turnbull Thomson sketched this horse and pig at Highlay hill in Otago in 1857. Thomson was responsible for many of the place names in Otago and Southland, including animal names, such as Sowburn in Central Otago.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Hocken Collections, University of Otago

Reference: 92/1309

by John Turnbull Thomson

Permission of the Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hakena, University of Otago, must be obtained before any re-use of this image. Further information may be obtained from the Library through its website.

Ngā whakaahua me ngā rauemi katoa o tēnei kōrero

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Malcolm McKinnon, Place names – Colonial naming, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/artwork/19336/animal-names (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Malcolm McKinnon, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.