Mount Taranaki

Template:Short description Template:Use New Zealand English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox mountain Mount Taranaki (Template:Langx), officially Taranaki Maunga and also known as Mount Egmont, is a dormant stratovolcano in the Taranaki region on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>'Likely to erupt in the future', Neal & Alloway 1991, as quoted in New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics Template:Webarchive</ref><ref name="andrews-and-paewai-2025"> Template:Cite news </ref> At Template:Convert, it is the second highest mountain in the North Island, after Mount Ruapehu. It has a secondary cone, Fanthams Peak (Template:Langx), Template:Convert, on its south side.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Name

The name Taranaki is from the Māori language. The mountain was named after Rua Taranaki, the first ancestor of the iwi (tribe) called Taranaki, one of several iwi in the region.<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref> The Māori word tara means mountain peak, and naki may come from ngaki, meaning "clear of vegetation."<ref name="Reed">Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref> It was also named {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} ("ice mountain") and {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} ("hill of Naki") by iwi who lived in the region in "ancient times".<ref name="Reed"/><ref name="TeAra">Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Captain Cook named it Mount Egmont on 11 January 1770 after John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> a former First Lord of the Admiralty who had supported the concept of an oceanic search for Terra Australis Incognita. Cook described it as "of a prodigious height and its top cover'd with everlasting snow," surrounded by a "flat country ... which afforded a very good aspect, being clothed with wood and verdure".<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

When the French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne saw the mountain on 25 March 1772 he named it {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}. He was unaware of Cook's earlier visit.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

It appeared as Mount Egmont on maps until 29 May 1986, when the name officially became "Mount Taranaki or Mount Egmont"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> following a decision by the Minister of Lands, Koro Wētere.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Egmont name no longer applies to the national park that surrounds the peak, but some geologists still refer to the peak as the Egmont Volcano.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Better source needed

As part of the Treaty of Waitangi settlement with Ngā Iwi o Taranaki, a group of tribes in the region,Template:Efn the mountain was officially renamed Taranaki Maunga.<ref name=No_more>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The settlement was initialled on 31 March 2023,<ref name=No_more/> and ratified by the iwi of Taranaki.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The official name changed to Taranaki Maunga on 1 April 2025.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Some iwi in the region had referred to the mountain as Taranaki Mounga rather than Taranaki Maunga, per the local Māori dialect.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Geology

Mount Taranaki is situated in the sedimentary Taranaki Basin and is part of the Taranaki Volcanic Lineament which has had a Template:Convert north to south migration over the last 1.75 million years.<ref name="Cronin2021"/>Template:Rp A Wadati–Benioff zone exists at about Template:Convert depth and the volcano's magma has the geochemical features of an arc volcano.<ref name=Shane2023>Template:Cite journal</ref>Template:Rp Under the volcano itself there is high heat flow with only about Template:Convert crustal thickness although this rapidly normalises for continental crust to Template:Convert east of the volcano and Template:Convert to the west.<ref name=Shane2023/>Template:Rp

Older volcanoes in the area

Mount Taranaki is one of four closely associated Quaternary volcanoes in Taranaki province that have erupted from andesite magmas that have not extensively assimilated enriched crust unlike the cone volcanos of the North Island Volcanic Plateau.<ref name="Price1999"/> It sits on the remains of three older volcanic complexes that lie to the northwest. The Indo-Australian Plate is slowly moving relative to the magma source that feeds these volcanoes. This trend is reflected in Fanthams Peak, the newer secondary cone on the southeast side of Taranaki, which is named after Fanny Fantham, who in 1887 was the first European woman to climb it.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The oldest volcanic remnants consist of a series of lava plugs: Paritutu Rock (156 metres), which forms part of New Plymouth's harbour, and the Sugar Loaf Islands close offshore. These have been dated at 1.75 million years.<ref name="Cronin2021">Template:Cite journal</ref>Template:Rp

On the coast, 15 kilometres southwest of New Plymouth is the Kaitake Range (682 metres), last active over 500,000 years ago.<ref name="Cronin2021" />Template:Rp

Nearest to Taranaki is the Pouākai Range. Pouākai may have originated around the same time as Kaitake but remained active until about 210,000 years ago.<ref name="Cronin2021" />Template:Rp Much of Pouākai's large ring plain was obliterated by the Taranaki volcano, the hills near Eltham being the only remnant to the south.<ref name="pukeariki" />

Volcanic activity

Taranaki is geologically young, having commenced activity approximately 200,000 years ago.<ref name=Cronin2021/>Template:Rp The most recent volcanic activity was the production of a lava dome in the crater and its collapse down the side of the mountain in the 1850s or 1860s.<ref name="pukeariki">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Between 1755 and 1800, an eruption sent a pyroclastic flow down the mountain's northeast flanks,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and a moderate ash eruption occurred about 1755, of the size of Ruapehu's activity in 1995/1996. The last major eruption occurred around 1655. Recent research has shown that over the last 9,000 years minor eruptions have occurred roughly every 90 years on average, with major eruptions every 500 years.<ref name="Price1999">Template:Cite journal</ref> Some of these eruptions may have occurred with very brief warning, of only days or less.<ref name=Shane2023/>Template:Rp The mountain in the last 5,000 years has had 16 tephra producing events.<ref name="Mills2025">Template:Cite journal</ref> However in the Holocene there have been at least 138 eruptions,<ref name="Cronin2021"/>Template:Rp and for about 4000 years between 23.1 and 27.3 ka BP that bracket two flank collapses had 28 tephra producing events, some with VEI greater than 4.<ref name="Mills2025"/> At least 228 tephra-producing eruptions have occurred over the last 30,000 years.<ref name="Cronin2021"/>Template:Rp

Eruption and debris avalanches summary

As the volcano's major event record is so variable in time, with some major debris avalanches with edifice collapse, being associated with an increase in frequency and size of eruptions,<ref name="Cronin2021"/><ref name="Mills2025"/> it seems reasonable for the summary to include the full debris avalanche record. There are gaps in the ascertainable eruptive record around the start of the Holocene and little detailed study past 28,000 years ago.<ref name="Mills2025"/>

Summary of eruptions and debris avalanches

Date<ref name="GVPT">Template:Cite gvp</ref>	Years before 1950 (BP)	VEI<ref name="GVPT" />	Debris avalanche volume (km3)<ref name="Cronin2021"/>Template:RpTemplate:Efn	Tephra volume (km3)	Comment
1854 Template:Dts	{{ #expr: 1950-1854 }}	-	-	-	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1790 Template:Dts ± 10<ref name="Cronin2021"/>Template:Rp	{{ #expr: 1950-1790 }}	-	-	-	Formation of current summit summit half-sectioned lava dome<ref name="Cronin2021"/>Template:Rp
1755 Template:Dts	{{ #expr: 1950-1755 }}	-	-	-	Tahurangi ash, date tephrochronology<ref name="GVPT"/>
1700 Template:Dts ± 50	{{ #expr: 1950-1700 }}	-	-	-
1655 Template:Dts	{{ #expr: 1950-1655 }}	4	-	-	Burrell lapilli, date from tephrochronology,<ref name="GVPT"/> which is part of Maero formations 19 units<ref name="Olver2022">Template:Cite thesisTemplate:Rp</ref>Template:Efn
1590 Template:Dts ± 40	{{ #expr: 1950-1590 }}	-	-	-
1570 Template:Dts ± 40	{{ #expr: 1950-1570 }}	-	-	-
1560 Template:Dts ± 40	{{ #expr: 1950-1560 }}	-	-	-
1550 Template:Dts ± 40	{{ #expr: 1950-1550 }}	-	-	-
1500 Template:Dts ± 30	{{ #expr: 1950-1500 }}	-	-	-	Newall ash<ref name="GVPT"/> which is part of Maero formations 19 units<ref name="Olver2022"/>Template:Efn
1480 Template:Dts ± 50	{{ #expr: 1950-1480 }}	-	-	-
1400 Template:Dts ± 50	{{ #expr: 1950-1400 }}	-	-	-
1340 Template:Dts ± 40	{{ #expr: 1950-1340 }}	-	-	-
1300 Template:Dts ± 50	{{ #expr: 1950-1300 }}	-	-	-
1070Template:Dts ± 40	{{ #expr: 1950-1070 }}	-	-	-
970 Template:Dts ± 30	{{ #expr: 1950-979 }}	-	-	-
820 Template:Dts ± 30	{{ #expr: 1950-820 }}	-	-	-
550 Template:Dts	{{ #expr: 1950-550 }}	-	-	-	Kaupokonui tephra, date from tephrochronology<ref name="GVPT"/>
520 Template:Dts ± 150	{{ #expr: 1950-520 }}	-	-	-
390 Template:Dts ± 40	{{ #expr: 1950-390 }}	-	-	-
150 Template:Dts	{{ #expr: 1950-150 }}	3	-	-	Date from tephrochronology<ref name="GVPT"/>
100 Template:Dts ± 40	{{ #expr: 1950-100 }}	-	-	-
-40 Template:Dts ± 75 BCE	{{ #expr: 1950+40 }}	-	-	-	Maketawa tephra which has 8 layers distributed over about 400 years<ref name="GVPT"/><ref name="Olver2022"/>
-150 Template:Dts ± 30 BCE	{{ #expr: 1950+150 }}	-	-	-
-420 Template:Dts ± 30 BCE	{{ #expr: 1950+420}}	-	-	-
-590Template:Dts ± 500 BCE	{{ #expr: 1950+590 }}	-	-	-
-1130 Template:Dts ± 200	{{ #expr: 1950+1130 }}	-	-	-	Fanthams Peak (Panitahi), Manganui tephra which is a total of 7 layers distributed over about 2000 years<ref name="GVPT"/><ref name="Olver2022"/>
-1190 Template:Dts ± 40	{{ #expr: 1950+1190 }}	-	-	-
-1250 Template:Dts BCE	{{ #expr: 1950+1250 }}	-	-	-	Date from tephrochronology<ref name="GVPT"/>
-1560 Template:Dts ± 40 BCE	{{ #expr: 1950+1560 }}	-	-	-
-1700 Template:Dts ± 100 BCE	{{ #expr: 1950+250 }}	5	-	-	Inglewood tephra,<ref name="GVPT"/> two layers the Lower and Upper Inglewood<ref name="Olver2022"/>
-2150 Template:Dts BCE	{{ #expr: 1950+2150 }}	-	-	-	Korito tephra, date from tephrochronology, has 2 layers<ref name="GVPT"/><ref name="Olver2022"/>
-2400 Template:Dts ± 40 BCE	{{ #expr: 1950+2400 }}	-	-	-
-2450 Template:Dts ± 300 BCE	{{ #expr: 1950+2450 }}	-	-	-
-2700 Template:Dts BCE	{{ #expr: 1950+2700 }}	-	-	-	Tariki tephra, date from tephrochronology, has 6 layers<ref name="GVPT"/><ref name="Olver2022"/>
-2850 Template:Dts ± 300 BCE	{{ #expr: 1950+2850 }}	-	-	-
-3250 Template:Dts	{{ #expr: 1950+3250 }}	-	-	-	Waipuku tephra, date from tephrochronology, has single layer<ref name="GVPT"/><ref name="Olver2022"/>
-5120 Template:Dts ± 50 BCE	{{ #expr: 1950+5120 }}	-	-	-
{{ #expr: 1950-7500 }} Template:Dts BCE	7500	-	2.4	-	Opua debris avalanche deposit
-6050 Template:Dts BCE	{{ #expr: 1950+6050 }}	-	-	-	Date from tephrochronology<ref name="GVPT"/>
-7000 Template:Dts ± 100 BCE	{{ #expr: 1950+7000 }}	-	-	-	Kaponga-f tephra, one of 10 layers<ref name="GVPT"/><ref name="Olver2022"/>
-7270 Template:Dts ± 50 BCE	{{ #expr: 1950+7270 }}	-	-	-
-7330 Template:Dts BCE	{{ #expr: 1950+7330 }}	-	-	-	Kaponga-e tephra, date from tephrochronology, one of 10 layers<ref name="GVPT"/><ref name="Olver2022"/>
-7650 Template:Dts BCE	{{ #expr: 1950+7650 }}	-	-	-	Kaponga-b tephra, date from tephrochronology, one of 10 layers<ref name="GVPT"/><ref name="Olver2022"/>
{{ #expr: 1950-14000 }} Template:Dts BCE	14000	-	1.0	-	Motumate debris avalanche deposit
{{ #expr: 1950-23100 }} Between Template:Dts and Template:Dts BCE	23100	3-4.5<ref name="Mills2025"/>	-	3.0<ref name="Mills2025"/>	Paetahi and Poto tephras comprise 28 tephra layers that encompass the Ngaere and Pungarehu debris avalanche events.<ref name="Mills2025"/> Dating is helped by presence of a tephra layer from the Oruanui eruption of Taupo Volcano<ref name="Cronin2021"/>
{{ #expr: 1950-24800 }} Template:Dts BCE	24800	-	7.5<ref name="Mills2025"/>	-	Pungarehu debris avalanche deposit<ref name="Mills2025"/>
{{ #expr: 1950-27300 }} Template:Dts BCE	27300	-	5.85<ref name="Mills2025"/>	-	Ngaere debris avalanche deposit<ref name="Mills2025"/>
{{ #expr: 1950-34000 }} Template:Dts BCE	34000	-	2.0	-	Te Namu debris avalanche deposit - dated between 34–37 ka BP by wood<ref name="Cronin2021"/>
{{ #expr: 1950-37000 }} Template:Dts BCE	37000	-	0.2	-	Ihaia debris avalanche deposit dated by wood<ref name="Cronin2021"/>
{{ #expr: 1950-40000 }} Template:Dts BCE	40000	-	5.0	-	Rama debris avalanche deposit dated by peat above<ref name="Cronin2021"/>
{{ #expr: 1950-45000 }} Template:Dts BCE	45000	-	0.2	-	Kaupokonui debris avalanche deposit
{{ #expr: 1950-50000 }} Template:Dts BCE	50000	-	2.5	-	Otakeho debris avalanche deposit
{{ #expr: 1950-60000 }} Template:Dts BCE	60000	-	2.5	-	Tokaora debris avalanche deposit
{{ #expr: 1950-70000 }} Template:Dts BCE	70000	-	7.5	-	Waihi debris avalanche deposit
{{ #expr: 1950-75000 }} Template:Dts BCE	75000	-	5.5	-	Waingongoro debris avalanche deposit
{{ #expr: 1950-90000 }} Template:Dts BCE	90000	-	7.5	-	Oeo debris avalanche deposit
{{ #expr: 1950-105000 }} Template:Dts BCE	105000	-	3.6	-	Okawa debris avalanche deposit, age from pollen records<ref name="Cronin2021"/>
{{ #expr: 1950-130000 }} Template:Dts BCE	130000	-	4.5	-	Motunui debris avalanche deposit
{{ #expr: 1950-200000 }} Template:Dts BCE	200000	-	3.6	-	Mangati debris avalanche deposit

File:Mount Taranaki, New Zealand.jpg

From New Plymouth

Hazards

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Remains from a lahar at Taranaki

Taranaki is unusual in that it has experienced at least five of its major eruptions by the method of cone collapse. Few volcanoes have undergone more than one cone collapse. The vast volume of material involved in these collapses is reflected in the extensive ring plain<ref name="Price1999"/> surrounding the volcano. There is also evidence of lahars being a common result of eruption. The major collapse cycles have a potential maximum size of collapse of Template:Convert every 30,000 to 35,000 years.<ref name="Cronin2021">Template:Cite journal</ref>Template:Rp Such collapse debris fields have been found up to Template:Cvt beyond the coast.<ref name="Cronin2021" />Template:Rp Another major edifice collapse is expected to occur within 16,200 years.<ref name="Cronin2021" />Template:Rp

Much of the region is at risk from lahars, which have reached the eastern coast.<ref name="Cronin2021" />Template:Rp A volcanic event is not necessary for a lahar: even earthquakes combined with heavy rain or snow could dislodge vast quantities of unstable layers resting on steep slopes. Many farmers live in the paths of such possible destructive events.

Although volcanic eruptions are notoriously chaotic in their frequency, some scientists warn that a large eruption is "overdue". Research from Massey University indicates that significant seismic activity from the local faults is likely again in the next 50 years and such might be permissive to an eruption. What ever in the next 50 years, the probability of at least one eruption is between 33% and 42%.<ref name="Cronin2021"/>Template:Rp Prevailing winds would probably blow ash east, covering much of the North Island, and disrupting air routes, power transmission lines and local water supplies.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>

Māori mythology

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Taranaki at daybreak 2008

According to Māori mythology,<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref> Taranaki once resided in the middle of the North Island, with all the other New Zealand volcanoes. The beautiful Pihanga was coveted by all the mountains, and a great battle broke out between them.Template:Efn Tongariro eventually won the day,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> inflicted great wounds on the side of Taranaki, and causing him to flee. Taranaki headed westwards, following Te Toka a Rahotu (the Rock of Rahotu) and forming the deep gorges of the Whanganui River,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> paused for a while, creating the depression that formed the Ngaere swamp, then heading north. Further progress was blocked by the Pouākai Ranges, and as the sun came up Taranaki became petrified in his current location. When Taranaki conceals himself with rainclouds, he is said to be crying for his lost love, and during spectacular sunsets, he is said to be displaying himself to her.<ref name="tearawrua" /> In turn, Tongariro's eruptions are said to be a warning to Taranaki not to return.

History

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Mount Taranaki viewed from Inglewood, 1896

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NASA satellite photo of Taranaki. The forested area matches the national park boundary fairly closely.

The mountain was tapu in Māori culture and at the time of European settlement not climbed by them.<ref name="Langton1996">Template:Cite thesisTemplate:Rp</ref>

In 1839 the mountain was climbed by James Heberley, a whaler who reached the summit first, and the Swiss-trained doctor and naturalist Ernst Dieffenbach.<ref name="Langton1996" /> During his initial ascent, he identified the fast-flowing streams as being well suited to water driven mills.<ref>Ascent of Egmont. pp. 260–264. Ernest. Dieffenbach. Random House. 2008.</ref>Template:Nonspecific Dieffenbach was employed by the New Zealand Company to advise on the potential of land he explored in the North Island in 1839–40.<ref name="Langton1996" />

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. The legislation was framed with the intention of seizing and dividing up the land of Māori "in rebellion" and providing it as farmland for military settlers.

The mountain was returned to the people of Taranaki in 1978 by means of the Mount Egmont Vesting Act 1978, which vested it to the Taranaki Maori Trust Board. By means of the same Act, it was immediately passed back to the Government as a gift to the nation.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Waitangi Tribunal, in its 1996 report, Kaupapa Tuatahi,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> observed: "We are unaware of the evidence that the hapū agreed to this arrangement. Many who made submissions to us were adamant that most knew nothing of it." It cited a submission that suggested the political climate of 1975 was such that the board felt it was necessary to perform a gesture of goodwill designed to create a more favourable environment within which a monetary settlement could be negotiated.

Because of its resemblance to Mount Fuji, Taranaki provided the backdrop for the 2003 film The Last Samurai.<ref name="TeAra" />

In 2017, a record of understanding was signed between Taranaki iwi and the New Zealand government that would see the mountain become a legal personality.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> It is the third geographic feature in the country to be granted a legal personality, after Te Urewera and Whanganui River.

On 2 December 2019, an agreement between the Crown and Ngā Iwi o Taranaki was announced that the mountain was to only be referred to as Taranaki Maunga.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> On 30 January 2025, the New Zealand Parliament passed legislation recognising it as a legal person under the name Taranaki Maunga, with Mount Egmont ceasing to be an official name. In addition, the Crown apologised to eight Māori iwi for confiscating Mount Taranaki and 1.2 million acres of Māori lands in the Taranaki region.<ref name="andrews-and-paewai-2025"/><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

National park

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In 1881, a circular area with a radius of six miles (9.6 km) from the summit was protected as a forest reserve. Areas encompassing the older volcanic remnants of Pouākai and Kaitake were later added to the reserve and in 1900 all this land was designated as Egmont National Park, the second national park in New Zealand. There are parts of the national park where old-growth forests are found.<ref>C. Michael Hogan. 2009. Crown Fern: Blechnum discolor, Globaltwitcher.com, ed. N. Stromberg Template:Webarchive</ref> With intensively-farmed dairy pasture right up to the park boundary, the change in vegetation is sharply delineated as a circular shape in satellite images.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Recreation

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Taranaki from the Pouākai Circuit tramping track

The Stratford Mountain Club operates the Manganui skifield on the eastern slope. Equipment access to the skifield is by flying fox across the Manganui Gorge.

The Taranaki Alpine Club maintains Tahurangi Lodge on the north slope of the mountain, next to the television tower. The lodge is frequently used as the base for public climbs to the summit held in the summer months. The various climbing and tramping clubs organise these public events and provide informal guides.

Syme Hut is located near Fanthams Peak. It is maintained by the Department of Conservation and is available to trampers on a first come first served basis.

Weather on the mountain can change rapidly, which has caught inexperienced trampers and climbers unawares. As of 27 June 2017, 84 people have died on the mountain since records began in 1891, many having been caught by a sudden change in the weather. In terms of fatalities this mountain is the second most dangerous mountain in New Zealand after Aoraki / Mount Cook.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Gallery

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Access

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Aerial view of Mount Taranaki 2015

There are three roads on the mountain's eastern slopes that lead part-way up the mountain with many more around the foot of the mountain that access walking tracks. The highest access road reaches the East Egmont plateau, with a viewing platform and parking facilities for the skifield. It lies at the transition between subalpine scrub and alpine herbfields.

There are park visitor centres at North Egmont and at the waterfall Te Rere o Kapuni on the southeast side.

The eastern side from Stratford leads to the Stratford Mountain House, and the ski field.

There is poor road access on the western side beyond the bush line. However, a road winds for 10 km through native bush over the saddle between Pouākai and Kaitake. Near the top of this road is the renowned Pukeiti Trust rhododendron garden.<ref>Template:Cite thesisTemplate:Rp</ref>

Transmitter

The Mount Taranaki transmitter is the main television and FM radio transmitter for the Taranaki region. It is located on the north-eastern slope of the mountain adjacent to Tahurangi Lodge. The first transmitter at the site was commissioned by the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (NZBC) in 1966 to relay Wellington's WNTV1 channel (now part of TVNZ 1).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

See also

• List of mountains of New Zealand by height
• List of volcanoes in New Zealand
• Volcanism of New Zealand

External links

• New Zealand Mountain Safety Council's video on the Mount Taranaki Summit Route
• Mt Taranaki photos
• Taranaki Maunga Cam