| LC control no. | n 79029791 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Geographic heading | Wellington (N.Z.) |
| Geographic subdivision usage | New Zealand--Wellington |
| Variant(s) | Pōneke (N.Z.) Te Whanganui a Tara (N.Z.) Wellington City (N.Z.) Whanganui a Tara, Te (N.Z.) Te Upoko o te Ika a Māui (N.Z.) Upoko o te Ika a Māui, Te (N.Z.) |
| Other standard no. | 15034 Q23661 146566340 a37c7f76-b59a-4eb5-8858-ffe751bd8a3b 2179537 7001775 e6e36a58-3344-4d84-a9ab-d001e5a02330 |
| Beginning date | 1840-11 |
| Associated country | New Zealand |
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| Found in | Wellington, N. Z. Harbour board. Hand book ... 1937 NZ geog. placenames database, July 13, 2006 (Wellington; metropolis, major city; lat: -41.2904, long: 174.7767) Wellington (N.Z.). City Council. Annual report, 1990/91 t.p. (Wellington City) Wikipedia, Feb. 26, 2013 (Wellington; capital city and second most populous urban area of New Zealand; 41⁰17ʹ20ʺS 174⁰46ʹ38ʺE) New Zealand place names database, via WWW, Feb. 26, 2013 (Wellington; District: Wellington; Description: METR: Metropolis: Major city; Lat: -41.2904 Long: 174.7767) Ka hikitia : kōkiri kia angitu, 2013-2017, 2013: page 3 of cover (Te Whanganui a Tara) Wikipeda WWW site, viewed on February 2017: Te Whanganui-a-Tara page (Te Whanganui a Tara is the Māori name for Wellington Harbour; also sometimes used to refer to the city of Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand, which lies on the shores of the harbour; another Māori name for Wellington is Pōneke) New Zealand gazetteer, via WWW, viewed on April 24, 2024: search for place names (Wellington City; feature type: local authority; location: 41.237S 174.768E; land district: Wellington) Wikipedia WWW, viewed on April 24, 2024: Wellington page (Wellington takes its name from Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington; named in November 1840 by the original settlers of the New Zealand Company; in the Māori language, Wellington has three names: Te Whanganui-a-Tara, meaning "the great harbour of Tara", refers to Wellington Harbour; Pōneke, commonly held to be a phonetic Māori transliteration of "Port Nick", short for "Port Nicholson". An alternatively suggested etymology for Pōneke is that it comes from a shortening of the phrase Pō Nekeneke, meaning "journey into the night"; Te Upoko-o-te-Ika-a-Māui, meaning "The Head of the Fish of Māui" (often shortened to Te Upoko-o-te-Ika), a traditional name for the southernmost part of the North Island) |
| Not found in | New Zealand gazetteer of official geographic names, via WWW, Feb. 26, 2013 |
| Geographic area code | u-nz--- |
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