Story: Tapa whenua – naming places
Page 5 – External links and sources
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.
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.
