New Zealand region
Advertise your website on Taranaki
The mountain watches. The rest of us just visit.
The Taranaki board
Open. Nobody has listed on Taranaki yet — $1 puts your site at the top of this board and your name on the map.
Highest bid is the name on the map. Outbid stays listed below, not refunded. Rules
About Taranaki
Taranaki is a near-perfect volcanic cone with a region arranged in a circle around it. New Plymouth is on the coast, the dairy land is on the ring plain, and the energy sector — oil, gas, and now a great deal of wind and hydrogen talk — sits underneath the whole thing.
Who a listing on Taranaki reaches
Taranaki has a high-income workforce and a small population, which makes it an easy market to be noticed in. Energy services, engineering shops, dairy suppliers, the surf coast, and the event and garden trade around New Plymouth all sell to it.
- Main centres
- New Plymouth, Hāwera, Stratford, Ōpunake
- Council
- Taranaki Regional Council, Stratford
- People
- 126,015 (2023 Census)
On the chart
Taranaki MaungaPeak
Taranaki Maunga, 2,518 m. A near-perfect volcanic cone; last erupted around 1790.
The summit is tapu to Taranaki iwi, who ask that climbers do not stand on the very top.
Cape EgmontLandmark
Cape Egmont: Taranaki’s western tip, and a lighthouse moved here in 1881.
The lighthouse first stood on Mana Island, then was moved here piece by piece.
Māui AOn the water
Māui A: a gas platform 35 km off the Taranaki coast, producing since 1979 from the Māui field.
The field once supplied most of the nation's gas; it is winding down.
KupeOn the water
Kupe: gas and light oil from a platform 30 km off Manaia, ashore by pipeline since 2009.
Named for the navigator said to have reached Aotearoa first.
New PlymouthCity
New Plymouth / Ngāmotu: under Taranaki Maunga, with a 13 km coastal walkway.
The Len Lye Centre's steel facade ripples like his kinetic sculptures.