BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Confusion over NZ islands' names

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Confusion over NZ islands' names: "New Zealanders are to be asked what they would like to call their two main islands, currently North and South.

The country's Geographic Board, which assigns and approves place name changes, has announced consultations on alternative English and Maori names.

The move follows the discovery that the geographically correct names, used for 200 years, were not legally registered."