Taumata whakatangihanga koauau o tamatea turi pukaka piki maunga horo nuku pokai whenua ki tana tahu
| Taumata | ||
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 Shield with name, hill in the background |
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| height | 305 m | |
| location | New Zealand | |
| Coordinates | 40 ° 20 ′ 51 ″ S , 176 ° 33 ′ 2 ″ E | |
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| Type | hill | |
| rock | Sandstone , marl , slate | |
| Age of the rock | chalk | |
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu is the Māori -Name of a 305 meter high hill near Mangaorapa and Porangahau , south of Waipukurau , between Hastings and Dannevirke in the southern part of Hawke's Bay in New Zealand . Mostly the name is abbreviated as Taumata .
The name, in readable form, separated by words Taumata-whakatangihanga-koauau-o-Tamatea-haumai-tawhiti-ure-haea-turi-pukaka-piki-maunga-horo-nuku-pokai-whenua-ki-tana- tahu would mean something like :
"The place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees who slid down mountains, climbed and swallowed, known as the land eater, played his flute for his lover."
With 85 letters, the place has the second longest toponym in the world, after Bangkok . The notation given can be read on the sign posted on the hill. There are several variations of the name, and in the spelling Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturipukapihimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuaakitanarahu (92 letters) he originally stood in the Guinness Book of Records . It was there that Rupert Hine of Quantum Jump discovered the name and used it as an intro for The Lone Ranger . The rhythmic chanting became the running gag of the popular British radio show by Kenny Everett, and The Lone Ranger entered the top ten of the British charts with the original intro in 1979.
In a map of the Department of Lands and Survey in 1929 the name of the mountain was Taumatawhakatangihangakoauau indicated that according to the Māori dictionary with Tamatea plays the flute can be translated.
Ross Scott, a Māori from the vicinity of Porangahau, whose family has owned the land for over 400 years, applied for name protection for the hill with the relevant authorities in September 2006. It is in the interest of his tribe to protect this designation from improper use. It is a " Taonga " (treasure) of the Māori people, argued Scott before the Waitangi Tribunal , a government agency for affairs of the indigenous people.
See also
- Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch - parish in Wales
- Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit - Bangkok's official place name
literature
- Ansbert Kneip: The hill calls - like a New Zealander markets a rather boring mountain . In: Der Spiegel . No. 38 , 2006, p. 66 ( online ).
Web links
- Maori wants to protect the world's longest mountain name. In: Spiegel Online. September 3, 2006.
- Pronunciation of the name. (MP3; 94 kB) In: Kōrero Māori. Archived from the original on March 20, 2012 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ James Hogg, Robert Sellers: Hello, Darlings! The Authorized Biography of Kenny Everett. Random House, London 2013, chap. 21st
- ↑ Porangahau Survey District . (JPG; 26.5 MB) Auckland Library , 1929, accessed June 7, 2020 (English).
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Translation from the Māori Dictionary :
- whakatangi . Māori Dictionary,accessed June 7, 2020(Maori, English).
- -hanga . Māori Dictionary,accessed June 7, 2020(Maori, English).
- kōauau . Māori Dictionary,accessed June 7, 2020(Maori, English).
