Mount Titiraupenga

Mount Titiraupenga
Mount Titiraupenga
	Mount Titiraupenga Waikato, New Zealand
Highest point
Northland Allochthon, arc basalts, arc ring basalts, dacite, andesite (shades of red), basaltic andesite, rhyolite, (ignimbrite is lighter shades of violet), and plutonic. White shading is selected caldera features.

Titiraupenga (also known as Mount Titiraupenga) is an extinct 1,042 metres (3,419 ft)

basaltic andesite stratovolcano^[2] on whose southern slopes is located the geographical centre of the North Island of New Zealand. It is in the Pureora Forest Park between Lake Taupō and Te Kūiti on the North Island Volcanic Plateau in New Zealand. The area of the mountain is in a scenic reserve that is "recognised as one of the finest rain forests in the world".^[3]

Geography

The mountain is covered in native forest and is in the southern Waikato region.

Mount Titiraupenga has a prominence above the surrounding countryside of about 350 m (1,150 ft) and a diameter of about 3.5 km (2.2 mi).

orthopyroxene, with rare olivine and hornblende phenocrysts with an age of 1.89 ± 0.02 Ma.^[2]

The nearest main roads are State Highway 30 and State Highway 32. There is road access to a track to the summit,^[4] which also by a fair walk onwards gives access to the summit of Mount Pureora.^[5]

^ "Walks in the Pureora Forest". Visit Ruapehu. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
^ "Map of YMCA camp Park Lee". Retrieved 23 November 2022.
^ "Pureora Forest Park". newzealand.com. New Zealand Tourism Board. Retrieved 23 November 2022.