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Story: Tapa whenua – naming places

Maungaharuru Range

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Maungaharuru Range

This is the Maungaharuru Range, in Hawke’s Bay. The name means ‘the mountain that resounded’, because of the sound of the numerous birds found there.

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Rāwiri Taonui, Tapa whenua – naming places – Events, maps and European influences, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/18652/maungaharuru-range (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Rāwiri Taonui, published 1 March 2009.