Mount Wai-ariki
Status
- Official name
- This name decision / determination was published in the New Zealand Gazette on 3 September 2009 and notified in newspapers on 4 and 6 September 2009 - see 3 September 2009 NZGB public notice of decisions.
Description & location
Located west of Wellington along Oteranga Bay Road (private), topographic map 260-R27,R28&Pt.Q27-Wellington, height 483m, GR 490 888. At the summit is a beaconed trig station named 'A Mt Misery' (geodetic code 8111).
Wai-ariki translates as "the chiefs or patriarchs of all water".
Report
You can read the Deed of Settlement Between the Crown and Taranaki Whānui ki Te Upoko o Te Ika (OTS website pdf 243KB) which was prepared by the Office of Treaty Settlements. Read the Port Nicholson Block (Taranaki Whānui ki Te Upoko o Te Ika) Claims Settlement Act 2009.
Map
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