Pouērua

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title: "Pouērua" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["volcanoes-of-the-northland-region", "far-north-district"] description: "Scoria cone in the Kaikohe-Bay of Islands volcanic field, New Zealand" topic_path: "general/volcanoes-of-the-northland-region" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pouērua" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Scoria cone in the Kaikohe-Bay of Islands volcanic field, New Zealand ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox mountain"]

Field	Value
name	Pouērua
map_image	{{#tag:mapframe
align	center
text	Pouērua (red marker) in map of surface volcanics with scoria and lava fields of the Kaikohe-Bay of Islands volcanic field. Tarahi is to the east.
width	280
height	280
latitude	-35.37
longitude	173.96
icon	no
zoom	10
map_alt	Map of North Island surface volcanic features
elevation_m	270
coordinates
type	Basalt cone
age	Pleistocene
geology	Basalt
volcanic_field	Kaikohe-Bay of Islands volcanic field
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Culture

The last Māori who occupied Pouērua were the Ngāti Rāhiri subtribe of Ngāpuhi. They left in about 1860.

According to the Historic Places Trust, Pouērua is considered the origin and the watershed or pou of the two tribal areas of Ngāpuhi, at the Hokianga in the west and Taumarere in the east.

References

• The Archaeology of Pouerua (Auckland University Press)

References

1. (2002). "Field Trip Guides, GSNZ Annual Conference "Northland 2002"".
2. (2003). "The archaeology of Pouerua". Auckland University Press.
3. "Pouerua". Historic Places Trust.
4. McLean, Gavin. (8 October 2014). "Pouērua". Ministry for Culture and Heritage.

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