Another group of places across the country now reflect both Māori and Pākehā history after receiving dual names this year. Tamatea, the Māori name for Dusky Sound, was one of the 16 sounds and inlets of Fiordland that received dual names earlier this month. She said the board, and local iwi Ngāi Tahu were "very excited" about restoring the Māori names. "The important thing about these dual names is it records a bicultural history but from my point of view it brings the old traditional names assigned by our ancestors back to the places, they're the first names these places had." He said it was huge for the Māori names to have equal recognition with the names given by Cook, who are mainly named after passing whalers or Sydney merchants who landed sealing gangs there."

Source: Stuff December 25, 2019 19:52 UTC