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Te Atua Mahuru

hill in New Zealand

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ7690784 ↗
Source-derived summary

Te Atua Mahuru is a prominent peak in southern Hawke's Bay and the eastern Rangitikei District, in New Zealand's eastern North Island. It lies in the Ruahine Range, within the boundaries of the Ruahine Forest Park, of which it is the second highest peak, at 1534 metres. The Makaroro River has its source on the eastern flanks of Te Atua Mahuru. The slightly smaller Mount Maropea lies just to the south.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Te Atua Mahuru” as hill in New Zealand. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1534—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Atua, Mahuru and hill can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as hill in New Zealand. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7690784. Authority coordinates are -39.711, 176.180. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1534.

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This entry incorporates text from “Te Atua Mahuru” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.