Mount Watkin / Hikaroroa

Mount Watkin / Hikaroroa
Fog shrouding the snow covered Mount Watkin / Hikaroroa
Highest point
Elevation616 m (2,021 ft)
Coordinates45°34′S 170°35′E / 45.567°S 170.583°E / -45.567; 170.583
Naming
EtymologyHikaroroa, after a Kati-Mamoe warrior
Watkin, after Reverend James Watkin
Native nameHiikaroroa (Māori)
Geography
Map
CountryNew Zealand
RegionOtago
DistrictDunedin
Geology
Mountain typeStratovolcano

Mount Watkin/Hikaroroa is a 616-metre peak located north-west of Waikouaiti, Otago, New Zealand. It is on the east side of the North Branch of the Waikouaiti River.[1]

The peak was originally named Hikaroroa, after a Kati-Mamoe warrior,[2] and was renamed after a pioneer Methodist missionary, Reverend James Watkin in the 1840s.[3] The name was changed to "Mount Watkin/Hikaroroa" by the Ngai Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998 No 97.[4]

  1. ^ Discover New Zealand:A Wises Guide (9th ed.). 1994. p. 526.
  2. ^ Beattie, H (1920). "Traditions and Legends. Collected from the natives of Murihiku". The Journal of the Polynesian Society. 29 (4): 195.
  3. ^ Pybus, T. A. (1954). Maori and Missionary: Early Christian Missions in the South Island of New Zealand. Reed Publishing (NZ) Ltd. p. 9.
  4. ^ "Schedule 96: Alteration of place names". Ngai Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998 No 97. New Zealand Government. 1998.