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The name is the subject of a 1960 song by the New Zealand balladeer Peter Cape. [11] It appears in the 1976 (re-released in 1979) single "The Lone Ranger" by British band Quantum Jump , which featured in the title sequence of the second series of The Kenny Everett Video Show .
1966 Air New Zealand DC-8 crash: air accident 4 Jul 1966: near Auckland Airport: 2 Air New Zealand Flight 4374: air accident 17 Feb 1979: near Auckland Airport: 2 Airwork Flight 23: air accident 3 May 2005: near Stratford: 2 2010 Canterbury earthquake: earthquake 4 Sep 2010: near Darfield: 2 2016 Kaikōura earthquake: earthquake 14 Nov 2016 ...
Aoraki / Mount Cook, located in New Zealand's South Island, is the highest point in the country. The following are lists of mountains in New Zealand [a] ordered by height. . Names, heights, topographic prominence and isolation, and coordinates were extracted from the official Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) Topo50 topographic maps at the interactive topographic map of New Zealand
Mountain ranges of New Zealand. Includes prominent hill systems. Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. Mountain ...
Kaihū Forest is a protected forest area located in the Northland region of New Zealand, near the Kaihū River and the settlement of Kaihu. [1] The forest spans approximately 2,400 ha (5,900 acres) of highlands, including Tutamoe, the second-tallest mountain in Northland, and is home to a wide range of native flora.
The park was first created in 1881 as a forest reserve and went on to become New Zealand’s second national park, preceded by Tongariro National Park, in 1900. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The forest reserve was created within a 6-mile (9.6-kilometre) radius around the cone of the dormant Mount Taranaki volcano .
The New Zealand Post Office engineering division (radio) built and maintained a microwave communications facility near the top of Kaimai range, close to the Hamilton–Tauranga highway saddle. In the 1960s it was a Lenkurt relay as part of the national network, linking Sanitorium Hill near Cambridge to Rotorua , with a spur to Tauranga.
Aoraki / Mount Cook [a] is the highest mountain in New Zealand. Its height, as of 2014, is listed as 3,724 metres (12,218 feet). [2] It is situated in the Southern Alps, the mountain range that runs the length of the South Island. A popular tourist destination, [3] it is also a favourite challenge for mountain climbers. Aoraki / Mount Cook ...