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| Taranaki, on the North Island's West Coast, juts into the Tasman Sea and is half way between Auckland and Wellington. Mount Taranaki is ever-present in this region - a huge, dramatic volcanic cone with a snowy top. |
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Maori legend tells of a conflict between the volcanoes of the central North Island - Tongariro won leaving the other mountains to retreat. Taranaki went west towards the setting sun and carved out the Whanganui river as he went.
The forest on Mount Taranaki's middle slopes is sometimes known as 'Goblin Forest' because of the gnarled shape of the trees and the thick swathes of trailing moss.
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