Hunua Ranges
| Hunua Rangs | ||
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| Highest peak | Mangatangi ( 487 m ) | |
| location | Auckland Region , North Island , New Zealand | |
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| Coordinates | 37 ° 5 ′ S , 175 ° 10 ′ E | |
The Hunua Ranges are a hill country about 50 km southeast of Auckland in New Zealand's North Island . They extend inland along the west coast of the Firth of Thames and have an area of about 250 km², of which 178 km² are nature parks. They reach their greatest height at 688 m at Kohukohunui. Auckland gets much of its water from reservoirs in the Hunua Ranges.
They are sparsely populated and a large part is in the Waharau and Hunua Ranges Conservation Parks. Some Aucklanders mistakenly refer to them as the Bombay Hills , but this is actually a smaller group of hills in the southwest of the Hunua Ranges.
literature
- Barry Clayton Waterhouse: Hunua Ranges . In: Alexander Hare McLintock (Ed.): An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand . Wellington 1966 ( online [accessed December 14, 2015]).
- IL Barton: On the Vegetation of the Hunua Ranges . In: New Zealand Journal of Botany . Volume 10, Issue 1. Auckland March 1972, p. 8–26 , doi : 10.1080 / 0028825X.1972.10430207 (English).
Web links
- Regional Parks - Hunua Ranges. Auckland Council, accessed August 21, 2014 .
- Regional Parks - Waharau. Auckland Council, accessed August 21, 2014 .