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Ngāpuhi mountains

Ngāpuhi mountains

This map shows the posts (mountains) of Ngāpuhi. The house of Ngāpuhi is constructed with the sky father as the roof, the earth mother as the floor, and the mountains as the posts.

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Rāwiri Taonui, Ngāpuhi – Lands, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/map/394/ngapuhi-mountains (accessed 21 June 2026).

Story by Rāwiri Taonui, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 March 2017.

Comments

anonymous
17 May 2016
why is whiria registered as the same maunga as whiria
carl
18 November 2010
We where tought that Puhanga-tohoraa was the pautokomanawa of the whare and the outer wall was Whakateremanawakaiaia, as the saying in Otaua is, If Whakatere falls, The great Puhanga will be there to replace it.