Matemateāonga Range
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{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
The Matemateāonga Range is a range of rugged hills in the northern Manawatū-Whanganui region of the western North Island of New Zealand. It is located on the western side the Whanganui River between Wanganui and Taumarunui.
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The 1970s proposed ''Cape Egmont to East Cape'' walkway
Starting in the late 1970s the then Department of Survey and Land Information embarked on a project to link Cape Egmont to East Cape by a walkway.
The Matemateāonga Range section of the ‘Cape Egmont to East Cape’ walkway was completed in the 1970s. The Matemateāonga Range section still remains in use. It was a traditional Māori trail, then dray track in the early 20th century.
{{cite magazine |last=Barnett |first=Shaun |date=17 May 2015
|title=Wild Range: Matemateaonga Range
|url=https://www.wildernessmag.co.nz/matemateaonga-ranga
|magazine=Wilderness Magazine
|location=51a Riverlea Avenue, Pakuranga, Auckland 2010
|publisher=Lifestyle Publishing Ltd
|access-date=23 February 2020
|quote=No wonder Maori had a route along it and Europeans planned to build a road over the crest, too. Some work on the road was completed in the early part of the 20th century but, happily for trampers, it never became much more than a dray road.
}}
|url=https://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-go/manawatu-whanganui/places/whanganui-national-park/things-to-do/tracks/matemateaonga-track
|title=Matemateāonga Track |date=23 February 2020
|website=www.doc.govt.nz
|publisher=Department of Conservation (New Zealand) (DOC) (Māori: Te Papa Atawhai)
|access-date=23 February 2020
|quote=Penetrate deep into the wilderness of the Whanganui National Park on old Maori trail and settlers’ dray road.
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|last=McDonald
|first=Pete
|date=2011
|title=Foot-tracks in New Zealand: Origins, Access Issues and Recent Developments
|url=https://petemcdonald.co/ft.pdf
|location=
|publisher=Pete McDonald
|page=93
|isbn=0473190958
|author-link=petemcdonald.co/posts/foot-tracks-in-new-zealand
|quote=Ian Church, however, has suggested that ‘it[Matemateāonga Track] was probably along this track [which he calls the Whaka-ihu-waka track] that Wiremu Kingi Te Koroiti led his people to the support of Ihaia Kirikumara at Karaka Pa on the Waitara River during the Puketapu feud of 1857.
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Category:Mountain ranges of New Zealand
Category:Landforms of Manawatū-Whanganui
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