Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu is the Māori name of a 305 meter high hill near Mangaorapa and Porangahau, south of Waipukurau, between Hastings and Dannevirke in southern Hawke 's Bay, New Zealand. Most of the name is abbreviated to Taumata.

The name means something like:

" The place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid down mountains, climbed up and swallowed, known as the land eater, played his flute for his beloved ."

With 85 letters of the city has the second longest place name in the world. The specified syntax can be read on the sign that is erected on the hill. There are some variations of the name, and in the notation Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturipukapihimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuaakitanarahu ( 92 letters ), he was originally in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Ross Scott, a Māori from near Porangahau, whose family owns the land for over 400 years, has protection for the name this mountain applied in September 2006 to the competent authorities. It is in the interest of his tribe to protect that name from inappropriate use, if it were a " taonga " ( treasure ) of the Māori people, Scott argued before the Waitangi Tribunal, a government agency for affairs of the natives.