LC control no. | n 82115535 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Geographic heading | Hawke's Bay (N.Z.) |
Geographic subdivision usage | New Zealand--Hawke's Bay |
Variant(s) | Hawke's Bay Region (N.Z.) Te Matau-a-Māui (N.Z.) Matau-a-Māui, Te (N.Z.) |
Other standard no. | Q251825 14976 |
Associated country | New Zealand |
Found in | Wilson, J. G. History of Hawke's Bay ... 1939 NZ off. yrbk., 2002 p. 60 (Hawke's Bay) New Zealand : region, district and city boundaries, 1994 (Hawke's Bay Region) GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009 (civil; 39°00ʹ00ʺS 177°00ʹ00ʺE) New Zealand gazetteer, via WWW, viewed on October 30, 2024: search for place names (Hawke's Bay; feature type: local authority; location: 39.394S 176.605E; history/origin/meaning: the region that is administered by the Hawke's Bay Regional Council; named by Captain James Cook who, on 15 October 1769, wrote: 'This Bay I have named Hawke's Bay in Honour of Sir Edward, first Lord of the Admiralty.' The spelling of the name of the province has been standardised as Hawke's Bay, that of the bay itself, Hawke Bay; land district: Hawke's Bay) Wikipedia WWW site, viewed on October 30, 2024: Hawke's Bay page (Hawke's Bay (Maori: Te Matau-a-Māui) is a region on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island) |
Geographic area code | u-nz--- |