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	Pirongia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pirongia is a small town in the Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island.
		It is 12 kilometres to the west of Te Awamutu, on the banks of the Waipa River, close to the foot of the 962 metre Mount Pirongia, which lies in a forest park to the west of the town.
		Pirongia was originally named Alexandra but to avoid confusion with the town of that name in the South Island the name was changed to Pirongia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pirongia (237 words)

	Pirongia from the northeast Photo \| TrekNature
		This is our beloved Mount Pirongia as seen from the main street in our little village.I took this as I was passing through this afternoon and decided to post it before resuming my posts of yesterdays jungle trek.
		Pirongia last erupted about 1.6 million years ago,and eruptions are known to have occurred some 2.7 million years ago.
		Pirongia forest park now comprises 17,000 hectares of native broadleaf and podocarp (conifer) forest.It is the largest tract of unbroken native forest in the Waikato area and contains at least 58 species of trees,44 different shrub species and 110 types of fern.
	www.treknature.com /gallery/Oceania/photo9713.htm (442 words)

	Pirongia Park New Zealand
		Pirongia Park New Zealand, is densely forested and has an interesting plant and bird life.
		The Pirongia Forest Park includes three extinct volcanos Mount Pirongia (959 metres), The Cone (945 metres) and Mount Karioi (756 metres).
		If you want to spend the night on Mount Pirongia you can stay in the Pukatea Hut which is about 30 minutes walk away from the summit.
	www.tourism.net.nz /new-zealand/about-new-zealand/attractions/parks-and-reserves/pirongia-forest-park.html (217 words)

	Mount Did You Mean mount? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A mount is a point where additional equipment, such as a weapon, camera, winch and telescope can be attached to a vehicle so that the vehicle itself supports the weight of the equipment, rather than the operator.
		A mount in gymnastics is the maneuver of going from the ground onto a gymnastic apparatus, such as the balance beam or parallel bars.
		To mount a file system, in computer science, is to make it ready for use by the operating system, typically by reading certain index data structures from storage into memory ahead of time.
	www.did-you-mean.com /Mount.html (615 words)

	Bay of Islands Country Rock Festival
		Pirongia Mountain Men and Ma Pirongia Mountain Men was established in 1997 when local musicians got together for Jams and recording sessions.
		All musicians are entertainers in their own right to name but a few groups would be too sad and to name them all would take too long.
		This wee place of sounds nestled on the slopes of Mount Pirongia is a place of hard work, great company and fun for all those involved.
	www.country-rock.co.nz /bands-pirongia.htm (481 words)

	Welcome to Pirongia Forest park
		Two of the most recent and least eroded of these volcanoes, Pirongia and Karioi, form part of Pirongia Forest Park.
		Pirongia and Karioi fall within the Maori tribal rohe of Tainui.
		To the Tainui people these mountains and the rivers that flow around them are bound together, an intimate part of their history and traditions.
	www.mtpirongia.org.nz (421 words)

	Auckland University Tramping Club
		Mount Teichelmann - 3160 m (10,367 ft) Mount Sefton - 3157 m (10,358 ft)
		Mount Taranaki or Mount Egmont - 2518 m (8261 ft)
		Mount Ross - 983 m (3225 ft) (highest peak of the Aorangi Range) Mount Anglem - 979 m (3212 ft) (highest peak on Stewart Island)
	www.autc.org.nz /index.php?option=com_jd-wiki&Itemid=146&id=highest_mountains_in_n.z (455 words)

	List of mountains of New Zealand by height - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The country's 30 highest mountains are all contained within the Southern Alps, a chain which forms the backbone of the South Island.
		Mount Douglas Peak - 3081 m (10,108 ft)
		Mount Haidinger - 3066 m (10, 059 ft)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_mountains_of_New_Zealand_by_height (526 words)

	GEOLOGY – NEW ZEALAND'S GEOLOGICAL HISTORY - Volcanic Activity - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
		The most westerly is Mount Karioi, south of Raglan Harbour; Mount Pirongia, and two small volcanoes near Te Awamutu succeed it to the south-east.
		Mount Maungatautari, near Lake Karapiro, is an eroded andesite volcano of similar age.
		The huge andesite cone, Mount Egmont, is one of a chain of volcanoes that grew in Taranaki in the Pleistocene.
	www.teara.govt.nz /1966/G/GeologyNewZealandsGeologicalHistory/VolcanicActivity/en (771 words)

	Pirongia Travellers' Accommodation - Pirongia, New Zealand
		In the heart of Pirongia in the heart of the Waikato, for relaxation and recreation in a peaceful, rural atmosphere.
		Nearby is Mount Pirongia with a summit of 959m.
		The Pirongia Forest Park covers 17,000ha and includes many walking tracks ranging from 1hr to 11hrs, from easy to challenging.
	www.pirongiatravellers.co.nz (167 words)

	About Te Awamutu - by the Kiwanis Club of Te Awamutu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Mount Pirongia is 16 km west beyond Pirongia township which is 13 km (8 miles) distant.
		General Cameron's HQ was at Te Rore, north of Pirongia (Alexandra in those days).
		The voluntary laying down of arms by King Tawhiao at Alexandra (Pirongia) ended the Waikato Land Wars in 1881.
	www.wave.co.nz /~kiwanis/tawetaw.htm (750 words)

	(GC25E4) Mount Pirongia Summit (Waikato) by tgsnoopy
		This cache is located close to the summit of Mt. Pirongia, a 3000 foot mountain near the west coast of the north island, between Kawhia and Raglan.
		It is located within 15 metres of the lookout at the summit of Mount Pirongia.
		DOC has an excellent leaflet "Pirongia Forest Park" which should be available for around a dollar, a good investment, as is the Te Awamutu S15 Topographical Map.
	www.brillig.com /geocaching/r.cgi?gs=9700 (1089 words)

	Tv Ceiling Mount - Information
		Mount Hungabee, 1 Fay 3,235 2 Little 3,088 3 Bowlen 3,072 5 Perren 3,051 6 Allen 3,310 7 Tuzo 3,246 including Temple, Babel and Mount Barker is the Lofty Ranges.
		Mount Barker was of Barker, of Barker, from with Barker, Western.
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	www.freewebs.com /information24/tv-ceiling-mount.html (358 words)

	'Dack' Aplenty on Pirongia
		DOC's plant ecologist Andrea Brandon said many of the 150 caged plants were found to be flowering and in good heart, with no sign of possum or rat browse.
		Especially pleasing was the discovery of eight new plants with flowers that had not been browsed.
		Andrea Brandon said New Zealand's native short-tailed bat is known to pollinate dactylanthus flowers in Pureora and other parts of the country, but a survey for the presence of bats on Pirongia had proved unsuccessful.
	extranet.doc.govt.nz /content/frontpage/2003/dack.htm (555 words)

	Geocaching Australia - Free and Open Geocaching
		See they have built a big new lookout since the last visit.
		Did this cache as part of a three day father-and-son tramp around the Pirongia Forest, hit the cache and summit on day three.
		A highly recommended tramp, two days up Bell track, stay the second night at the hut and down via Tahuanui Track to complete the loop.
	geocaching.com.au /cache/gc25e4 (1005 words)

	Rally New Zealand - After day one :: car.kak.net ::
		Plenty of mud on SS2, which took the crews south from Pirongia Forest Park towards the Waitomo Caves.
		It was much drier for the second pass through Pirongia West, so much so that the cars threw up trails of dust as they powered through the stage.
		Despite the earlier wet conditions, rutting wasn't a major problem because the base layer of the road is quite hard under the loose gravel.
	car.kak.net /Article5621.html (1609 words)

	Pirongia Information
		Pirongia Forest Park Lodge Society was formed in 1984 to establish a permanent education facility.
		The site, by courtesy of the Department of Conservation, is on the north east slope of Mount Pirongia, inside the Forest Park Boundary.
		Comprising an area of 4 hectares at the head of a small gully, is bounded to the west by the bush line and to the north by a ravine and the Mangakara Stream.
	www.geocities.com /pfplodge/information.html (475 words)

	About us ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Very faintly in the background are two extinct volcanos, Mount Pirongia to the right and Kakepuku to the left.
		The volcanic cone in the background is Mount Ngauruhoe.
		To the south there is skiing on Mount Ruapehu and boating on the Rotorua and Taupo lakes.
	homepages.slingshot.co.nz /~bormans/About_Us.htm (778 words)

	WPS Field Trips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Coming up on the 30th of April we're having another field trip, this time to the southern enclosure at Maungatautari, so if you missed out on the one to Walter Scott Reserve, here is another chance to get out and about with your camera in good company.
		Recently on the 1st of April a group of WPS members visited the Walter Scott Reserve on Mount Pirongia.
		A great time was had, taking much longer than the 1 and a quarter hours the sign said it would.
	www.waikatophotosoc.org.nz /html06/field.html (328 words)

	Activities golf, fishing, horseriding, mountain biking, kayaking, walking, hiking, wineries, vineyards in the Rotorua ...
		St John's Church built 1864 is one of the oldest in the district and has magnificent coloured lead glass windows, memorial tablets and graves of both British and Maori casualties of the Waikato Wars.
		Pirongia Forest Park, 20km west of Te Awamutu has a number of walking tracks leading to the summit of Mt Pirongia (959m).
		Beach, Mount Maunganui beach is a Mecca for beach and water activities.
	www.cottagestays.co.nz /regions/waikatoinfo.htm (3104 words)

	Waikoha Smallfarm - Crofter Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Outstanding features of the property include a diversity of large trees, and a fascinating mix of flat to rolling pastures, secluded meadows, steep slopes and rock outcrops.
		Smallfarm, where we have lived since 1996, is located at Te Pahu in the foothills of Mount Pirongia, 25 kilometres west of Hamilton in the North Island of New Zealand.
		In late 2004, we purchased another smallholding, Ngā Kōhatu, an old rock quarry just up the road, another 30 acres, about half of which can be used as pasture.
	www.crofter.co.nz /waikoha.htm (232 words)

	Walter Scott Reserve
		Naming: At the request of the donors, Ellen and Lilian Valder, the reserve is named after Walter Scott, who gave the Valder sisters great assistance when they first took up farming in the area and who spent the greater part of his farming life in the district.
		The reserve is situated on the southern foothills of Mount Pirongia at the intersection of Scott and Pekanui Rds off Pirongia-Kawhia Rd. It is 2kms west of Ngutunui and 27kms west of Te Awamutu.
		What is now Walter Scott Reserve was originally part of land extending to the northern side of Scott Rd under the ownership of the Tangatahe family (Ani, Mariu, Moengaroa, Maata and Wiremu), who had a two-thirds share, and Hori Tauroa, who had a one-third share.
	www.forestandbird.org.nz /enjoy_nature/Reserves/walterscott/index.asp (1099 words)

	Set in the heart of lush green Waikato countryside
		There are spectacular 360° views of the surrounding farmland, bush, hills and Mount Pirongia.
		She strongly feels the presence of Divine energy from Mount Pirongia and the surrounding countryside and works with this energy on all levels, from growing fruit and veges to the healing treatments.
		The 2-acre property has gardens, veges, flowers, an orchard, young native trees, a small herd of sheep, and the cutest lambs, only about a week old at the time of my stay.
	www.harmonyhours.co.nz /Pauline-1.htm (495 words)

	NZ \| Harmony Hours Retreat \| North Island B&B \| Wellington B&B (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Less than one hour drive to the Waitomo Caves, 30 minutes drive to coastal Raglan, surfing mecca and cafe village.Mount Pirongia is a 10 minute drive and offers many different walks.
		From Hamilton take SH 23 to Raglan and just past Whatawhata turn left into Te Pahu Rd and we are approx 8kms on the right.
		Travelling fromTe Awamutu, travel to Pirongia meeting up with SH 39 and 4 kms north of Pirongia turn left into Te Pahu road and travel 13.85kms to Harmony Hours which is on the left hand side of the road.
	www.bedhunt.com /BDHT961-NZ-NorthIsland-Wellington-HarmonyHoursRetreat-BandB.aspx (219 words)

	Maori the Artist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		And then when sleep stole softly and slowly through the house, drowsy heads fell back on soft beds of fern and matting, forgetful of the hours until the rising sun roused the village to another day of work.
		'Whatiwhatihoe,' a Maori village under the shadow of Mount Pirongia, where the Maori 'King" once lived.
		This engraving from the published account of Captain Cook's first voyage shows the intricate art lavished on Maori weapons and implements.
	www.colonialcdbooks.com /Maori_the_Artist.htm (589 words)

	Pirongia - Wikitravel
		Pirongia is a little village about 30 minutes drive south of Hamilton, in southern Waikato, on the North Island of New Zealand.
		Pirongia is about 30 kilometres south of Hamilton and 12 km west of Te Awamutu, off State Highway 3 as it runs south from Hamilton to Otorohanga.
		For a more direct trip, get off the highways and take the country roads through Temple View and see the Mormon Temple in this area.
	wikitravel.org /en/Pirongia (150 words)

	Subaru Rally New Zealand
		Stages covered roads in the Pirongia - Waitomo Caves area on the first day.
		Day 1 Rally NZ Petter Solberg was forced to play catch up while Marcus Gronholm dominated the first leg of the Rally of NZ.
		Route The opening leg took place to the south west of Hamilton, near an extinct volcano named Mount Pirongia.
	www.subaru.co.nz /Rally_News_Results/News/?article=988 (1595 words)

	[section] \| NZETC
		White settlers on friendly terms with the Maoris frequently crossed the Puniu in quest of strayed stock, to traffic with the natives for pigs, and so on, but Government officials and land-seekers were discouraged with tupara and tomahawk.
		Richard Todd, a Government surveyor, was shot on the slopes of Mount Pirongia, not far from the township of Alexandra (now Pirongia).
		Colonel William Lyon, an Imperial veteran, commanded the Constabulary and Volunteer forces in the Waikato, with headquarters at Cambridge, during the often critical days of the “seventies,” and was in charge of the Auckland Volunteer District, 1884–87.
	www.nzetc.org /tm/scholarly/tei-Cow02NewZ-c43-0.html (2002 words)

	Hamilton photos
		Summer occasionally see temperatures of more than 30 degrees, while on clear winter mornings temperatures may drop to as low as -4 degrees celsius.
		Although there are rumours of a snowfall in Hamilton in the 1960s, and the nearby Mount Pirongia sees a dusting of snow once every few years, snow does not fall in Hamilton.
		It is illegal to copy or use the images without permission.
	www.virtualoceania.net /newzealand/photos/cities/hamilton (292 words)

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