What is the mountain near Whakatane?

What is the mountain near Whakatane?

Mount Edgecumbe
Maungapohatu is the highest point. The most prominent mountain is Putauaki (Mount Edgecumbe).

What is the name of the mountain in Kawerau?

Putauaki, also known as Mount Edgecumbe, is a dacite volcanic cone in the Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand.

How tall is Putauaki?

2,690′
Mount Edgecumbe/Elevation

Can you climb Mt Edgecombe?

Climbing to the summit of Mount Putauaki/Edgecumbe takes about 2 hours up and around 1.5 hours to come down. A permit is required to access the road and to climb the mountain. These permits can be obtained from MIL (Maori Investments), who are located on Waterhouse Street Extension (off River Road) in Kawerau.

Is Mount Edgecumbe active?

In the Bay of Plenty Region there are four active volcanic centres (active in last 20,000 years); the Okataina Volcanic Centre, Pūtauaki (Mt Edgecumbe), Tuhua (Mayor Island) and Whakaari (White Island). The main cone forms the largest part of the complex, erupted as a series of lava flows and volcanic breccias.

Who was Edgecumbe?

Edgecumbe is the name that was given to Putauaki by Captain Cook in 1769! *Yes there were Māori people living in Edgecumbe near the Rangitaiki River but Edgecumbe had really been a very big swampy area with only some patches of land that could be big enough to live on.

How old is Putauaki?

The mountain rises to 820 m above sea level, and is visible from the waters of the Bay of Plenty, 30 km to the north. Every year a King of the Mountain race is run on Putauaki as part of the international King of the Mountain series, and proceeds are donated to charity….

Putauaki
Last eruption	Around 300 BCE

Is Mount Edgecombe active?

How high is Mt Edgecombe?

When did Mayor Island last erupt?

The latest eruption of Mayor Island has not been dated, but was considered by Houghton et al. (1992) to have occurred perhaps only 500-1000 years ago.

What is the population of Edgecumbe NZ?

Edgecumbe is a town in the Bay of Plenty of the North Island of New Zealand, 15 kilometres to the west of Whakatāne and eight kilometres south of the Bay’s coast….

Edgecumbe
Territorial authority	Whakatāne District
Ward	Rangitāiki
Population (June 2021)
• Total	1,790

Is Mt Maunganui an active volcano?

Mount Maunganui, or Mauao, commonly known by locals as The Mount, is an extinct volcanic cone at the end of a peninsula and the town of Mount Maunganui, by the eastern entrance to the Tauranga Harbour in New Zealand.