Mount Taranaki

Mount Taranaki
Mount Taranaki
Taranaki Maunga; Mount Egmont;
	View of Mount Taranaki from Stratford, showing Fanthams Peak on the southern flank
Highest point
Elevation	2,518 m (8,261 ft)
Prominence	2,308 m (7,572 ft)
Listing	Ultra; New Zealand #65
Coordinates	39°17′47″S 174°03′53″E / 39.29639°S 174.06472°E
Geography
	Mount Taranaki North Island, New Zealand
Topo map	NZMS 169 Egmont National Park
Geology
Age of rock	135 ka
Mountain type	Stratovolcano
Last eruption	1854
Climbing
First ascent	Ernst Dieffenbach & James Heberly, 1839
Easiest route	Mount Taranaki Summit Track (trail)
	Taranaki andesite (red shading) in centre of map. The surrounding debris and lahar fields are not shown although they include the green forested area on the map that surround Mount Taranaki and the Pouakai Range and have reached the sea in all directions on the Taranaki peninsula except where blocked by the Pouakai Range. To its north are the older andesitic volcanoes of Pouakai and Kaitake. Clicking on the map enlarges it, and enables panning and mouseover of volcano name/wikilink and ages before present. Key for the volcanics that are shown with panning is: basalt (shades of brown/orange), monogenetic basalts, undifferentiated basalts of the Tangihua Complex in Northland Allochthon, arc basalts, arc ring basalts, dacite, andesite (shades of red), basaltic andesite, rhyolite, (ignimbrite is lighter shades of violet), and plutonic. White shading is selected caldera features.

Mount Taranaki (Māori: Taranaki Maunga) (also called Mt Egmont) is a dormant stratovolcano in the Taranaki region on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island.^[4]^[5] At 2,518 metres (8,261 ft), it is the second highest mountain in the North Island, after Mount Ruapehu. It has a secondary cone, Fanthams Peak (Māori: Panitahi), 1,966 metres (6,450 ft), on its south side.^[6]

^ "Peaklist.org: Oceania". Archived from the original on 6 October 2020. Retrieved 4 March 2007.
^ "Pouakai Crossing". Department of Conservation. Archived from the original on 1 January 2023. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
^ "Mount Taranaki Summit Track (NZ DOC)". Archived from the original on 21 December 2013. Retrieved 4 March 2007.
^ "Volcano Fact Sheet: Mount Taranaki / Egmont Volcano" (PDF). GNS Science. 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
^ 'Likely to erupt in the future', Neal & Alloway 1991, as quoted in New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics Archived 22 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Dawson Falls and East Egmont Walks" (PDF). Department of Conservation. 2015. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 March 2012. Retrieved 8 July 2017.

[1] "Peaklist.org: Oceania". Archived from the original on 6 October 2020. Retrieved 4 March 2007.

[2] "Pouakai Crossing". Department of Conservation. Archived from the original on 1 January 2023. Retrieved 7 August 2021.

[3] "Mount Taranaki Summit Track (NZ DOC)". Archived from the original on 21 December 2013. Retrieved 4 March 2007.

[4] "Volcano Fact Sheet: Mount Taranaki / Egmont Volcano" (PDF). GNS Science. 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2012.

[5] 'Likely to erupt in the future', Neal & Alloway 1991, as quoted in New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics Archived 22 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine

[6] "Dawson Falls and East Egmont Walks" (PDF). Department of Conservation. 2015. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 March 2012. Retrieved 8 July 2017.

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Mount Taranaki
Taranaki Maunga Mount Egmont
View of Mount Taranaki from Stratford, showing Fanthams Peak on the southern flank
Highest point
Elevation	2,518 m (8,261 ft)
Prominence	2,308 m (7,572 ft)^[1]
Listing	Ultra New Zealand #65
Coordinates	39°17′47″S 174°03′53″E / 39.29639°S 174.06472°E / -39.29639; 174.06472
Geography
Mount Taranaki North Island, New Zealand
Topo map	NZMS 169 Egmont National Park
Geology
Age of rock	135 ka
Mountain type	Stratovolcano
Last eruption	1854
Climbing
First ascent	Ernst Dieffenbach & James Heberly, 1839^[2]
Easiest route	Mount Taranaki Summit Track (trail)^[3]
Taranaki andesite (red shading) in centre of map. The surrounding debris and lahar fields are not shown although they include the green forested area on the map that surround Mount Taranaki and the Pouakai Range and have reached the sea in all directions on the Taranaki peninsula except where blocked by the Pouakai Range. To its north are the older andesitic volcanoes of Pouakai and Kaitake. Clicking on the map enlarges it, and enables panning and mouseover of volcano name/wikilink and ages before present. Key for the volcanics that are shown with panning is: basalt (shades of brown/orange), monogenetic basalts, undifferentiated basalts of the Tangihua Complex in Northland Allochthon, arc basalts, arc ring basalts, dacite, andesite (shades of red), basaltic andesite, rhyolite, (ignimbrite is lighter shades of violet), and plutonic. White shading is selected caldera features.