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Mount Maunganui, or Mauao, known to locals as The Mount, [3] is a 232 metre (760 foot) volcanic dome at the end of a peninsula in the Tauranga suburb of Mount Maunganui in New Zealand, beside the eastern entrance to the city's harbour. Local Māori consider Mauao to be tapu (sacred), and it plays an important role in their mythology.
Mauao (The Mount) is a large lava dome [3] which rises above the town. According to Maori legend, this hill was a pononga [slave] to a mountain called Otanewainuku. [8] The conical headland which gives the town its name is 232 metres (761 ft) in height, and dominates the mostly flat surrounding countryside.
An archaeological site containing the remains of a 19th-century European militia and pilot station near Mauao. [17] Kinonui Pā Category 2 Pilot Quay, Mount Maunganui — 1984 6403 A pā on the western slopes of Mauao associated with the Ngāti Pūkenga. [18] Pā Category 2 Mount Maunganui — 1984 6401 A pā on Mauao associated with the Ngāti ...
Rongokako was the son of Tamatea Arikinui, who captained the Tākitimu canoe from Hawaiki to Aotearoa New Zealand. [2] His mother was Tato, a direct descendant of Toi-kai-rākau, [3] who harnessed Tamatea when he landed at Mauao and thereby forced him to marry her. [4]
View over Greater Tauranga, taken from the top of Mauao. Greater Tauranga is a very popular lifestyle and tourism destination. It features many natural attractions and scenery ranging from popular beaches and harbour environments to lush bush-clad mountains with waterfalls and lakes. View of Mount Beach, with Mauao in background
Robley was born at Funchal, Madeira, on 28 June 1840, the son of John Horatio Robley, a captain (retired) of the Madras Native Infantry, East India Company, [4] [5] and Augusta Jane Penfold (1809–1868), second daughter of William and Sarah Penfold of Madiera. [6]
Tāwhiao's granddaughter, Te Puea, ensured the continuance of Pai Mārire into modern times, recalling the story of how, just before his death, Tāwhiao told his people, 'I shall return this gift to the base of the mountains, leaving it there to lie. When you are heavily burdened, then fetch it to you.' [62]
Versions of this story are found on Hawaiʻi, Kauaʻi, and Maui. In the Maui version several white men and a woman were shipwrecked during the reign of King Kakaalaneo at Kiwi near Waihee. The captain's Hawaiian name was Kukanaloa. The men married, had families, and became ancestors of some of the chiefs.