Mount Taranaki

Mount Taranaki, or Mount Egmont, is a dormant stratovolcano in the Taranaki region at the west coast of New Zealand's North Island. Although the mountain is greater commonly known as Taranaki, it has legitimate names beneath the possibility names insurance of the New Zealand Geographic Board. The 2,518 metres mountain has a secondary cone, Fanthams Peak, 1,966 metres, on its south facet. Because of its resemblance to Mount Fuji, Taranaki supplied the backdrop for the film The Last Samurai. For many centuries the mountain grow to be known as Taranaki with the useful resource of Maori.

The Maori word tara approach mountain top, and naki is notion to return from ngaki, that means "shining", a connection with the snow-clad wintry weather nature of the upper slopes. It became moreover named Pukehaupapa and Pukeonaki with the useful resource of iwi who lived in the location in ancient times. Captain Cook named it Mount Egmont on eleven January 1770 after John Perceval, second Earl of Egmont, a former First Lord of the Admiralty who had supported the concept of an oceanic search for Terra Australis Incognita.