Eketahuna

Eketahuna is a small town on the North Island of New Zealand with 579 inhabitants ( 2001). It is in the Tararua District in the Manawatu-Wanganui Region. Eketahuna is located directly east of the Tararua Ranges, approximately 35 kilometers north of Masterton and about the same distance south of Palmerston North.

Eketahuna applies in New Zealand popularly known as the epitome of solitude and seclusion, it is a synonym for a " dump that needs to know not a man " and the rural New Zealand - similar to the imaginary " Hintertupfing " in German. After protests by the inhabitants of this nationwide defamation of the name of the city in the vernacular was also partially replaced by " Waikikamukau ", a fancy name to sound like Māori, but in reality the phrase " Why kick a moo cow? " ( " Why a Muhkuh occur? ") is derived.

In Eketahuna the Olympic champion from 1960 in the 5000 - meter race, Murray Halberg was born.