Karioi

Karioi or Mount Karioi is a 2.Four million yr vintage extinct volcano 8 km SW of Raglan inside the Waikato vicinity of New Zealand's North Island. It turned into the earliest of the line of 6 calcalkalic volcanoes, the most important of that is Mount Pirongia the others are at Kakepuku, Te Kawa, Tokanui, Waikeria and likely Puketotara. Karioi paperwork a historical past to many elements of Raglan. Karioi turned into also a Highway Board area around the maunga from 1870 to 1889, when it turned into absorbed with Whaingaroa Board vicinity and shaped into Karioi Riding, into Raglan County Council.

In 1876 it had a populace of 112 in 27 homes and in 1889 119 ratepayers, 80 of them absentees. Karioi is also a place at the Central Plateau ,see articles on Mangamahu, North Island Main Trunk, Raetihi, Waiouru. Many iwi whakapapa back to Karioi, which features in several Maori legends. One says that, a long time ago, Karewa was the husband of Karioi, but he flirted along with her sister, Pirongia, and became cast into the sea because the offshore rock named by means of Captain James Cook as Gannet Island. The profile of Karioi from Raglan is likened to a 'Sleeping Lady'.