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The Māori name Maungakiekie translates to ' mountain of the kiekie vine ', though other translations give the meaning as ' totara that stands alone '.
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In Māori it has the name Raukawa or Raukawa Moana.
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The name " Kakapo " is the English transliteration of " kākāpō " which is derived from the Māori terms kākā (" parrot ") + pō (" night ").
Māori and Maungakiekie
Maungakiekie was the largest and most important Māori Pā in pre-European times.
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Māori and translates
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Te Whanganui a Tara translates as the great harbour of Tara, which refers to chief Tara who Māori tradition says visited the area in the 12th century and decided to stay.
The name of the river is Māori, and translates roughly as ' place where canoe must be poled ' ( a possible reference to the method needed to travel through the extensive wetlands, instead of the usual paddling ).
The name translates from Māori as " footprint of the rainbow ", though is usually regarded as being named after Chief Tapuaenuku.
Tairua is a Māori name which translates literally as tai: tides, rua: two.
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Māori and mountain
Taranaki has been the Māori name for the mountain for many centuries, and the mountain itself now has two alternative official names, " Mount Taranaki " and " Mount Egmont ".
In Māori legend, Taranaki is a mountain being that lived peacefully for many centuries in the centre of New Zealand's North Island with three other mountains, Tongariro, Ngauruhoe and Ruapehu.
For many centuries the mountain was called Taranaki by Māori.
The Māori word tara means mountain peak, so to bilingual speakers the name Mount Taranaki is linguistically redundant ( as are many other placenames such as Lake Rotoiti and Motutapu Island ).
In 1865 the mountain was confiscated from Māori by the New Zealand Government under the powers of the New Zealand Settlements Act 1863, ostensibly as a means of establishing and maintaining peace amid the Second Taranaki War.
Since the 1980s, the mountain has two official names, either Mount Taranaki or Mount Egmont, to give equal recognition to its Māori and English names.
Other Māori tribes in the Auckland area can also trace their ancestry to the mountain.
Mount Tasman ( Horo-Koau in Māori ) is New Zealand's second highest mountain, rising to a height of 3497 metres.
The title comes from the Māori words ' hau māngere ' meaning lazy winds, after the shelter the mountain provides from the prevailing westerly wind.
The mountain of Hikurangi did not have a legend involving movement, and Te Kani-a-Takirau referenced this to justify his unwillingness to leave the area when he turned down the Māori Kingship, also saying he was " a king already through ancestors ".
In Māori times, kākā would fatten themselves on the berries of the tāwari trees growing on the mountain.
" Takahe ," the Māori name for a flightless, almost extinct New Zealand bird, is the nickname of the U. S. Navy LC-47 aircraft whose crew resupplied the traverse party near this mountain and assisted by providing aerial reconnaissance to locate passable routes.
This was leased to the New Zealand Sports and Social Club and became known as Aorangi Park ( Aorangi means " Cloud Piercer ", and is the Māori part of Aoraki / Mount Cook ; " Aorangi " is the standard Māori spelling and " Aoraki " is used in the Māori dialect in the vicinity of the mountain ).
Māori legend tells of the mountain showing the profile of a prominent warrior, and indeed from Dunedin Buttar's Peak and Mount Cargill between them do form the outline of a reclining figure, with Buttar's Peak being the head and Mount Cargill the body.
The earliest inhabitants were Māori on hunting expeditions or travelling through the valley to reach the inland areas and mountain passes.
To the west of Pūtauaki mountain is a place known to Māori as Te Takanga-a-Apa ( the place where Apa fell ), so named because, according to one account, it was where Apa was kicked to the ground by the pet moa of a man called Te Awatope.
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