Mount Hobson
Mount Hobson is the highest mountain on Great Barrier Island, New Zealand. Located in the centre of the island, it rises 627 m above sea level.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ingolfson, Public domain.
- Type: Scenic viewpoint
- Description: mountain on Great Barrier Island, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Hirakimata”, “Hirakimatā”, “Maunga Hirakimatā”, and “Maunga Hirakimatā / Mount Hobson”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Great Barrier Island and Mount Young.
Great Barrier Island
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Great Barrier Island is in the outer Hauraki Gulf in northern New Zealand. It lies east of the Northland Peninsula and directly north of Coromandel Peninsula.
Mount Young
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Mount Young is a peak, which is situated 3 km southwest of Mount Hobson.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ōkiwi and Whangaparapara.
Ōkiwi
Village
Ōkiwi is a small settlement and rural community at the head of the Whangapoua Estuary, in Whangapoua Bay, on Great Barrier Island in New Zealand's Hauraki Gulf. Ōkiwi is situated 4 km northwest of Mount Hobson.
Whangaparapara
Village
Photo: Ingolfson, Public domain.
Whangaparapara is a harbour and coastal community on Great Barrier Island in New Zealand's Hauraki Gulf. Europeans settled Whangaparapara for mining, timber milling and whaling. It is now a tourism and boating spot, where boats can pick up fuel and water. Whangaparapara is situated 6 km south of Mount Hobson.
Mount Hobson
- Categories: mountain, hill, tourism, and peak
- Location: Auckland, Auckland Region, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-36.18606° or 36° 11′ 10″ southLongitude
175.41292° or 175° 24′ 47″ eastElevation
627 metres (2,057 feet)Open location code
4VMQRC77+H5OpenStreetMap ID
node 650002OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=viewpointWikidata ID
Q6921210
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Satellite Map
Discover Mount Hobson from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Slovenian—“Mount Hobson” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Хиракимата”
- Cebuano: “Hirakimata”
- Cebuano: “Mount Hobson”
- Czech: “Mount Hobson”
- Dutch: “Hirakimata”
- Dutch: “Mount Hobson, Great Barrier Island”
- Dutch: “Mount Hobson”
- French: “mont Hobson”
- French: “Mont Hobson”
- Irish: “Maunga Hirakimatā”
- Japanese: “ホブソン山”
- Ladin: “Mount Hobson”
- Maori: “Maunga Hirakimatā”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Hobson på Great Barrier Island”
- Slovenian: “gora Hobson”
- Slovenian: “Mount Hobson”
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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 “Mount Hobson”. Photo: Ingolfson, Public domain.