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Pouakai (volcano)
Pouakai or Pouākai may refer to: * Pouākai, a monstrous bird in Māori mythology * Haast's Eagle, an extinct bird of New Zealand * Pouakai Range The Pouakai Range is an eroded and heavily vegetated stratovolcano in the North Island of New Zealand, located northwest of Mount Taranaki. It consists of the remains of a collapsed Pleistocene stratovolcano. The range is surrounded by a ring ..., an eroded, extinct volcano on the northern flank of Mount Taranaki {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pouākai
The (also spelled ) is a monstrous bird in Māori mythology. Mythologies In some of these legends, the Pouākai kills and eats humans. The myth may refer to the real but now extinct Haast's eagle: the largest known eagle species, which was able to kill an adult moa weighing up to , and which potentially had the capability to kill a human. History Haast's eagles, which lived only in the east and northwest of New Zealand's South Island, did not become extinct until around two hundred years after the arrival of Māori people, Māori. Eagles are depicted in early rock-shelter paintings in South Canterbury. Large amounts of the eagle's lowland habitat had been destroyed by burning by AD 1350, and it was driven extinct by overhunting, both directly (Haast's eagle bones have been found in Māori archaeological sites) and indirectly: its main prey species, nine species of moa and other large birds such as adzebills, Finsch's duck, flightless ducks, and New Zealand goose, flightle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harpagornis
Haast's eagle (''Hieraaetus moorei'') is an extinct species of eagle that once lived in the South Island of New Zealand, commonly accepted to be the pouakai of Māori legend.Giant eagle (''Aquila moorei''), Haast's eagle, or Pouakai Museum of New Zealand: Te Papa Tongarewa. Retrieved 27 October 2010. It was the largest eagle known to have existed, with an estimated weight of , compared to the harpy eagle. Its massive size is explained as an evolutionary response to the size of its prey, the flightless moa, the largest of which could weigh .Davies, S. J. J. F. (2003) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pouakai Range
The Pouakai Range is an eroded and heavily vegetated stratovolcano in the North Island of New Zealand, located northwest of Mount Taranaki. It consists of the remains of a collapsed Pleistocene stratovolcano. The range is surrounded by a ring plain of lahar deposits from a massive collapse that has been dated as roughly 250,000 years old. The region has been reshaped more recently after each cone collapse from Mount Taranaki. Geology The Pouakai Range volcano is situated in the Taranaki Basin and is part of the Taranaki Volcanic Lineament which has had a 30 mm/yr north to south migration over the last 1.75 million years. Present-day seismicity and stress directions in eastern Taranaki are consistent with back-arc extension processes. The Taranaki Volcanic Lineament members as they decrease in age from northwest to southeast are: # Paritutu, and the Sugar Loaf Islands from 1.75 Ma # Kaitake from 575 ka #Pouakai 210–250 ka #Mount Taranaki <200 ka Volcani ...
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