Te Hanga Ridge

Status

  • Assigning a traditional and locally used Maori name.

Description

A distinctive ridge along the Kaimai Range, extending in a generally southerly direction from a hill named Ngatamahinerua at height 849m to a point at height 640m where the ridge drops steeply near one of the source tributaries of Puketutu Stream near spot height 576m.  Located on the ridge are a hill named Pukupenga at height 841m and the current official name of Stokes Peak which is proposed to be discontinued above.  NZTopo50 BD35-Matamata GR 513 279 to BD36-Lower Kaimai GR 539 234.

Report

You can read the Te Hanga Ridge Place Name Proposal Report (PDF 232KB), which was considered by the New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa (NZGB) at its meeting on 8-9 December 2011. The report includes a printable map.

Consultation

This proposal is no longer open for public submissions.

Map


View NZGB Place name proposals 26 January 2012 in a larger map

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