Trout fishery rivers in the Wellington Region identified by Wellington Fish and Game and based on the Fisheries Resource Inventory. Each catchment and river has its own inventory database that is continually updated and added to with information from field work that includes drift dive surveys, fish traps, electric fishing counts and tagging. Trout spawn...

Sites with significant indigenous biodiversity values in the CMA Sites were identified with existing information and expert opinion and using the criteria in Policy 23 of the Regional Policy Statement for the Wellington Region and contained in more detail in: MacDiarmid et al (2012); Oliver & Beaglehole (2014); Todd et al (2014). MacDiarmid A, Nelson...

This feature class shows water races in the Wairarapa which are subject to Rule LW.R141 that permits the taking and use of water from water races provided the take and use is authorised by a resource consent held by the district council controlling the water race. The water races are identified in the following consents held by district councils in the...

Sites of significance identified by mana whenua iwi in the Wellington region and reported under contract to Greater Wellington Regional Council, listed under Schedule C4: Sites of significance to Taranaki Whānui ki te Upoko o te Ika a MauiSites of significance were mapped for Schedule C of the Natural Resources Plan for the Wellington Region - Te Tikanga...

Sites of significance identified by mana whenua iwi in the greater Wellington region and reported under contract to Greater Wellington Regional Council, listed under Schedule C1: Sites of significance to Ngā Hapū o Ōtaki.Sites of significance were mapped for Schedule C of the Natural Resources Plan for the Wellington Region - Te Tikanga Taiao o Te Upoko o...

Sites of significance identified by mana whenua iwi in the greater Wellington region and reported under contract to Greater Wellington Regional Council, listed under Schedule C5: Sites of significance to Rangitāne o Wairarapa & Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa.Sites of significance were mapped for Schedule C of the Proposed Natural Resources Plan for the...

Historic heritage sites of significance scheduled in the Natural Resources Plan based on work contained in reports produced under contract to Greater Wellington Regional Council by Chris Cochran, Russell Murray, Michael Kelly and Andy Dodd (2012), Coastal Historic Heritage of the Wellington Region: Survey for the Coastal Plan Review. Cochran & Murray...

Sites of significance identified by mana whenua iwi in the greater Wellington region and reported under contract to Greater Wellington Regional Council, listed under Schedule C2: Sites of significance to Te Ātiawa ki Whakarongotai.Sites of significance were mapped for Schedule C of the Proposed Natural Resources Plan for the Wellington Region 2015 - Te...

Waterbodies and catchments including rivers, lakes, harbours and open sea areas with significance to and identified as taonga by mana whenua iwi in the Wellington Region. This schedule relates to catchment management and shared decision making principles enbodied in the Plan. In particular the schedule recognises that kaitiakitanga shall be recognised and...

Sites of significance identified by mana whenua iwi in the greater Wellington region and reported under contract to Greater Wellington Regional Council, listed under Schedule C3: Sites of significance to Ngāti Toa RangātiraSites of significance were mapped for Schedule C of the Natural Resources Plan for the Wellington Region - Te Tikanga Taiao o Te Upoko...

Landscape assessment areas for the Waiarapa coast, developed for the Wairarapa Coastal Strategy in 2004 by Boffa Miskell.The Wellington Coastal Strategy has been included with the new Proposed Natural Resources Plan. Refer to pnrp.gw.govt.nz for more information regarding the new plan. Maps of the new plan are available through our map gallery.

This dataset shows the likelihood of uncovering a new archaeological record at a given site in the mainland Wellington Region and Kapiti Island. The layer was created with the intent to assist Local Authorities with their responsibility to identify and provide for historic heritage. The data was produced by WildNorth Ltd and EnviSion Ltd for the Historic...

Coastal Marine Area (CMA) and River Mouth boundaries identified and mapped for the Wellington Regional Coastal Plan. For more information regarding this plan, see the copy available from the GWRC website.The RCP defined the asThis dataset is due to be superceeded by the GWRC PNRP Coastl Marine Area and Rivermouth Boundaries dataset.

Wellington Region main and secondary river catchment boundaries that have habitat for Indigenous Fish that are categoriesed as Nationally Threatened. Note that any features with missing label points show that the polygon is not considered a catchment. See the Regional Freshwater Plan page on our website for more details. Based on the GWRC catchment...

Active Faults from GNS database. See also http://data.gns.cri.nz/af/. Last updated from GNS sources in Jan 2020.

Civil Defence Centres in the Wellington Region. Locations and details updated from lists at https://www.getprepared.nz/my-community/community-emergency-hubs/ on 29 June 2021.

Mean High Water Springs-10 (MHWS10) line for the Greater Wellington Region, NZ. MHWS10 is the mean high water spring tide exceeded 10 percent of the time. It is often used as a practical high tide level for infrastructure design works, and also for estimating extreme high (e.g. the 100-year Average Recurrence Interval) storm tides.Line extracted from a...

Mean High Water Springs-10 (MHWS10) line for the Greater Wellington Region, NZ. MHWS10 is the mean high water spring tide exceeded 10 percent of the time. It is often used as a practical high tide level for infrastructure design works, and also for estimating extreme high (e.g. the 100-year Average Recurrence Interval) storm tides.Line extracted from a...

This layer delineates the existing forest ecosystems for the Wellington region as mapped by Nick Singers using the national ecosystem classification system that he and Geoff Rogers developed as detailed in the link attached: https://www.doc.govt.nz/documents/science-and-technical/sfc325entire.pdf. A process to determine which forests were regionally...

This layer delineates the potential forest ecosystems for the Wellington region as mapped by Nick Singers using the national ecosystem classification system that he and Geoff Rogers developed as detailed in the link attached: https://www.doc.govt.nz/documents/science-and-technical/sfc325entire.pdf. A process to determine which forests were regionally...