Pūtauaki
Pūtauaki, known in English as Mount Edgecumbe, is a dacite volcanic cone in the Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand. A King of the Mountain race was run on Pūtauaki as part of the international King of the Mountain series between 1955 and 2020, and proceeds were donated to charity.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Phillip Capper, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 820 metres
- Description: volcano near Edgecumbe, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Mount Edgecumbe”, “Putauaki”, and “Pūtauaki / Mount Edgecumbe”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tarawera High School.
Tarawera High School
School
Tarawera High School is a secondary school located in Kawerau, New Zealand. It is the only secondary school serving the town, and serves students from Years 7 to 13.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kawerau and Te Mahoe.
Kawerau
Town
Photo: Air55, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kawerau is a town in the Bay of Plenty Region on the North Island of New Zealand. It is situated 100 km south-east of Tauranga and 58 km east of Rotorua.
Te Mahoe
Hamlet
Te Mahoe is a rural settlement in the Whakatāne District and Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand's North Island, next to Lake Matahina. In 2018, the larger community consisted of about 150 people, including 30 families in the village at the base of the Lake Matahina Dam.
Onepu
Locality
Onepu is a rural community in the Whakatāne District and Bay of Plenty Region of the North Island of New Zealand. Onepu is the original name of the Rohe which the Kawerau township now stands. Onepu is situated 8 km north of Pūtauaki.
Pūtauaki
- Categories: volcano and landform
- Location: Whakatāne District, Bay of Plenty, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-38.1069° or 38° 6′ 25″ southLongitude
176.73991° or 176° 44′ 24″ eastElevation
820 metres (2,690 feet)Open location code
4VHRVPVQ+6XOpenStreetMap ID
node 1567267295OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
Discover Pūtauaki from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Portuguese—“Pūtauaki” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mount Edgecumbe (bukid sa New Zealand, Bay of Plenty)”
- Cebuano: “Mount Edgecumbe”
- Cebuano: “Putauaki”
- Dutch: “Putauaki”
- German: “Mount Edgecumbe (Vulkan)”
- German: “Mount Edgecumbe”
- German: “Putauaki”
- German: “Pūtauaki”
- Italian: “Putauaki”
- Japanese: “パトーアキ”
- Japanese: “プタウアキ”
- Maori: “Putauaki”
- Maori: “Pūtauaki”
- Persian: “پوتاواکی”
- Portuguese: “Putauaki”
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Localities in the Area
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Highlights include Lake Tahuna and Lake Pupuwharau.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Pūtauaki”. Photo: Phillip Capper, CC BY 2.0.