Mount Taranaki (Māori: Taranaki Maunga, also known as Mount Egmont) is a dormant stratovolcano and legal person in the Taranaki region on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island. [5] [6] [7] At 2,518 metres (8,261 ft), it is the second highest mountain in the North Island, after Mount Ruapehu.

4 days ago · Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred ...

3 days ago · Mount Taranaki also known by its Māori name Taranaki Maunga, is a towering 8,261-foot stratovolcano that was recognized as a legal person in New Zealand on Thursday.

3 days ago · Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred ...

3 days ago · The House: In a collective redress to the eight Taranaki Iwi, this week Parliament bestowed legal personhood on Taranaki Maunga under the name Te Kāhui Tupua.. The personhood is not bestowed on the central maunga in isolation, but on "a living and indivisible whole comprising Taranaki Maunga and other tūpuna maunga [ancestral mountains], including Pouākai and Kaitake, from their peaks to ...

4 days ago · The Taranaki Maunga settlement is the latest that has been reached with Māori in an attempt to provide compensation for breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi - which established New Zealand as a ...

Taranaki is linked by legend to the mountains of the central North Island and his journey from the central plateau has been recounted by iwi for centuries. It is said Taranaki Mounga was formerly known as Pukeonaki and stood near Tūrangi, with Ruapehu, Tongariro, and Pihanga.

Taranaki Maunga Rising above the clouds, the majestic Taranaki Maunga offers spectacular scenery to those who make the challenging climb to its peak. The 2518 m high volcano lies in the centre of Egmont National Park (to be named Te Papa-Kura-o-Taranaki). At around 125,000 years old, it is the park’s most recent volcanic peak.

4 days ago · Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred ...

6 days ago · Taranaki Maunga is now the official geographic name of the peak – not Mount Taranaki or Mount Egmont. The names of the peaks and other natural features will be reinstated to their traditional names, replacing the likes of Fanthams Peak (Panitahi), Bells Falls (Te Rere-o-Tahurangi Falls), Stony River (Hangatahua River), and The Dome (Te Umu-o ...