Editing Mount Ngauruhoe (section)

== Etymology ==
Before the initial mapping of the area introduced labelling confusion, the local Māori name for the cone was Tongariro, and its summit crater was known as Ngāuruhoe.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.geonet.org.nz/news/4AyaQgRSoQkilwSKKTCrC7|title=Ngāuruhoe: the fiery history of Aotearoa's once-most active volcano|publisher=[[GeoNet (New Zealand)|Geonet]]|location=New Zealand|date=15 January 2025|access-date=15 January 2025}}</ref> 

The local Māori traditions state that the volcano was named by [[Ngātoro-i-rangi]], an ancestor of the local Māori [[iwi]], [[Ngāti Tūwharetoa]]. Ngātoro-i-rangi called volcanic fire from his homeland [[Hawaiki]], which eventually emerged at Ngauruhoe.<ref name="j1912">{{cite journal|title=Some New Zealand Volcanoes|author=J. Mackintosh Bell|journal=The Geographical Journal|issue=1|date=July 1912|volume=40|pages= 8–10|doi=10.2307/1778890|jstor= 1778890|bibcode=1912GeogJ..40....8B |url=https://zenodo.org/record/2110066}}</ref>
The name given by Ngātoro-i-rangi (''Ngāuruhoe'') either commemorates his slave, who had died from the cold before the fire arrived,<ref name="j1912"/> or refers to the insertions (''ngā uru'') of Ngātoro-i-rangi's ''hoe'' (paddle-like staff) into the ground during his summoning of the volcanic fire.