Story: Ngāti Raukawa

Maungatautari mountain

Maungatautari, just south of Cambridge, is the traditional mountain of Ngāti Raukawa.

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Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal, Ngāti Raukawa – Lands, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/158/maungatautari-mountain (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 March 2017.

Comments

Harriet
28 May 2018

Hi Phil, you can find more information on the Sanctuary Mountain website (at Maungatautari Mountain): https://www.sanctuarymountain.co.nz/birds.

Phil Campbell, QSM
15 January 2018

To whom it may concern, I am interested to learn what type of avian life live within the sanctuary, for research purposes only. Yours sincerely Phil Campbell.