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Frogatt Edge

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Frogatt Edge

Froggatt Edge is one of the crags at Wharepapa South that attract rock-climbing enthusiasts. The area is renowned for its ignimbrite rock formations. Climbers have given them colourful names, such as Animal Biscuit Valley, Hold On To Your Face Wall, Beer Garden and Bulge Gully.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Waikato places – Kakepuku to Maungatautari, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/27325/frogatt-edge (accessed 17 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 26 May 2010, updated 11 June 2015.