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Aoraki/Mt Cook
But I always do leap on new names I learn. You can accuse me of ignorance rather than inconsistency if I get them wrong. It's a great burden on the memory, I can tell you. The Grampians in Victoria are now Gariwerd, and Mt Kosciusko is now Mt Kosciuszko. Durban is now eThekwini and Pretoria is Tshwane -- or at least these are the municipalities. The Republic of Kyrgyzstan became the Kyrgyz Republic in May 1993. The constitution of Maldives says the official name is Republic of Maldives but goes on and explicitly refers to it as the Maldives and as State of the Maldives. Saint Lucia announced that it would always use the spelling Saint, not St, but the stamps continue to use St. I've got notebooks full of this stuff!
What's written on Aotearoa stamps these days?
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