I'm a fan of retaining and sharing what I consider to be "folk" names. Paddy's Bluffs, that a main highway perilously traverses, are now called the Waimakariri

I'm a fan of retaining and sharing what I consider to be "folk" names. Paddy's Bluffs, that a main highway perilously traverses, are now called the Waimakariri bluffs according to the agency that maintains highways, the name based on the river that flows under them. But to me, they'll always be Paddy's Bluffs. B'Limit, a mountain, which is now labelled as Blimit, but the apostrophe is a key part of its story (It's short for "the bloody limit", based on a joke told on the summit by the first climbers). Iona Pass, crossed by a highway from one watershed to another, a name used during the stagecoach days, but no longer. Devil's Chute, a very steep and slippery track to bypass a waterfall on the way into a hanging valley. The Organ Pipes, a distinctive geological structure in the bush above it, caused by a major earthquake in 1929. The Malvern Hills are no longer labelled as such on maps, but a road that winds along their frontage still bears the name. Two Tree Hill, a local hill that has, as you may guess, two very distinctive trees either side of the road at its summit. It's never had an official name, but I'd like it to. And also, some names are recorded, but the stories behind them fade. Reid Falls[0], a waterfall that used to cascade onto the highway through the Otira Gorge, but is now routed above it, was named after a roadman by the surname Reid who maintained that section of the coach road. After a good night at the pub in Otira, while walking back to his hut, he staggered off the side of the road and plummeted into the gorge at the point where that waterfall is. So it was named Reid's Fall initially, then changed to Reid Falls, as a somewhat darkly humorous tribute. Klondyke Corner, so called because people tried to live there, and in winter it got absolutely no sun at all, and the cold reminded some of the inhabitants of the intense cold they experienced during the Klondike Gold rush in the Yukon. [0]: https://www.flickr.com/photos/blackdiamondimages/40226261823 https://www.flickr.com/photos/blackdiamondimages/40226261823