Mount Smart

Rarotonga / Mount Smart
Rarotonga / Mt Smart, showing terracing excavated by Māori, photographed in 1899.
Highest point
Coordinates36°55′6″S 174°48′45″E / 36.91833°S 174.81250°E / -36.91833; 174.81250
Naming
Native name
Geography
Map
LocationNorth Island, New Zealand
Geology
Volcanic fieldAuckland volcanic field

Mount Smart (Māori: Rarotonga or Te Ipu kura a Maki; officially Rarotonga / Mount Smart)[1][2][3] is one of the volcanoes and Tūpuna Maunga (ancestral mountain) in the Auckland volcanic field. A century of quarrying removed almost all the 87 meter scoria cone along with extensive terracing excavated by Māori. The former quarry is now the site of Mount Smart Stadium.

  1. ^ "Place name detail: 54762". New Zealand Gazetteer. New Zealand Geographic Board. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference :2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Council, Auckland. "Rarotonga / Mount Smart". Auckland Council. Retrieved 8 September 2022.