Description

Area of dry or relatively dry land surrounded by water or low wetland

Topo50 description

island_poly is used to capture all the significant (with respect to size) offshore and inland (eg within a lake or river) islands of New Zealand. Also used for the shores of the sub-antartic and islands of the Ross Sea Region. The North, South and Stewart Islands are all held as coastline features. The island_poly boundary for offshore islands is mean high water, MHW - see coastline for full explanation of MHW. Where an island_poly is close to a road, the printed map may only show the road representation; both features are held in the data. Where the island_poly is a wharf edge, the printed map may only show the wharf representation; again, both features are held in the data

Topo250 description

Only those significant by their size or location are held in the Topo250 data and shown on the Topo250 printed maps; these are a generalised subset of those shown on the Topo50 series

Map image

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Representation specification

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Example

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Aerial view

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Important information: Permits may be required to visit some sensitive and special islands and areas. Contact the Department of Conservation to see if you need to apply for a permit.

See also: coastline

Class attributes

Attribute	Value
Object class	island_poly
Entity class	ISLAND
Additional entity class	Not applicable
Object inheritance	simple_area
Entity source	US Standard Entity
Map series	Topo250 Ant50 Topo50 Topo500
LSLIFF object class	314

Object attributes

Attribute	LSLIFF code Shapefile field Data type	Attribute description	Attribute values*
name	1001 name string	The name of the island, where known. Text data from July 2012 will be in UTF-8 format. If your system is not UTF-8 compliant, you will need to use the name_ascii attribute, which has had any macronated vowels removed. UTF-8 stands for Unicode Transformation Format-8. It is an octet (8-bit) lossless encoding of Unicode characters. UTF-8 encodes each Unicode character as a variable number of 1 to 4 octets, where the number of octets depends on the integer value assigned to the Unicode character. It is an efficient encoding of Unicode documents that use mostly US-ASCII characters because it represents each character in the range U+0000 through U+007F as a single octet. UTF-8 is the default encoding for XML.	"Matiu/Somes Island" {empty}
name_macronated	1140 macronated boolean	Indicates whether the entry in the name_ascii field contains a macronated vowel. Where the value is "Y" go to http://www.linz.govt.nz/regulatory/place-names/find-place-name/find-m%C4%81ori-place-names-dual-names-and-alternative-names for a list of places or feature names within New Zealand that are gazetted and include macrons	Y N
island_group_name	1036 grp_name string	The name of the group of islands that this island belongs to, where known. Text data from July 2012 will be in UTF-8 format. If your system is not UTF-8 compliant, you will need to use the name_ascii attribute, which has had any macronated vowels removed. UTF-8 stands for Unicode Transformation Format-8. It is an octet (8-bit) lossless encoding of Unicode characters. UTF-8 encodes each Unicode character as a variable number of 1 to 4 octets, where the number of octets depends on the integer value assigned to the Unicode character. It is an efficient encoding of Unicode documents that use mostly US-ASCII characters because it represents each character in the range U+0000 through U+007F as a single octet. UTF-8 is the default encoding for XML.	"Bream Islands" {empty}
group_name_macronated	1141 grp_macron boolean	Indicates whether the entry in the group_name_ascii field contains a macronated vowel. Where the value is "Y" go to http://www.linz.govt.nz/regulatory/place-names/find-place-name/find-m%C4%81ori-place-names-dual-names-and-alternative-names for a list of places or feature names within New Zealand that are gazetted and include macrons	Y N
name_ascii	9000 name_ascii string	Text data from July 2012 will be in UTF-8 format. If your system is not UTF-8 compliant, you will need to use this attribute, which has had any macronated vowels removed.
island_group_name_ascii	9001 grp_ascii string	Text data from July 2012 will be in UTF-8 format. If your system is not UTF-8 compliant, you will need to use this attribute, which has had any macronated vowels removed.
UFID	1000 t50_fid integer	A unique identifier for use on Topo50 data in the LINZ Data Service. This is not a universal ID. The intention is to manage these ID’s as persistent, however this is not guaranteed and there will be instances where what appears to be a minor change to a feature may result in a new ID being assigned.	"3254886"

* See explanation of attribute values for more information about how attribute values are represented.

Change log

Feature version	Revised	Description
10	2016-05-12	Corrected SHAPE attribute name for group_name_macronated
9	2012-08-28	Updated map image and aerial view; added representation specification and example feature photographs
8	2012-08-28	Added scale-specific definitions
7	2012-08-16	Name attribute in UTF-8 format; added name_ascii attribute
6	2010-07-06	Added group_name_macronated attribute
5	2010-03-01	Added name_macronated attribute
4	2008-04-10	Removed reference to seed and void objects
3	2001-11-23	Unspecified update
2	2000-03-31	comments
1	1999-03-01	intial status