The Raukumara Range lies north of Gisborne

Gisborne, New Zealand

-Economy:The harbour was host to many ships in the past and had developed as a river port to provide a more secure location for shipping compared with the open roadstead of Poverty Bay which can be exposed to southerly swells. A meat works was sited beside the harbour and meat and wool was shipped...

, near East Cape

East Cape

East Cape is the easternmost point of the main islands of New Zealand. It is located to the north of Gisborne in the northeast of the North Island....

 in New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

's North Island

North Island

The North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the much less populous South Island by Cook Strait. The island is in area, making it the world's 14th-largest island...

. It forms part of the North Island's main mountain chain, which runs north-northeast from Wellington

Wellington

Wellington is the capital city and third most populous urban area of New Zealand, although it is likely to have surpassed Christchurch due to the exodus following the Canterbury Earthquake. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range...

 to East Cape, and is composed primarily of greywacke

Greywacke

Greywacke or Graywacke is a variety of sandstone generally characterized by its hardness, dark color, and poorly sorted angular grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments or lithic fragments set in a compact, clay-fine matrix. It is a texturally immature sedimentary rock generally found...

, argillite

Argillite

An argillite is a fine-grained sedimentary rock composed predominantly of indurated clay particles. Argillaceous rocks are basically lithified muds and oozes. They contain variable amounts of silt-sized particles. The argillites grade into shale when the fissile layering typical of shale is...

s, siltstones and sandstones. The North Island's highest non-volcanic peak, Mount Hikurangi

Mount Hikurangi, Gisborne

Mount Hikurangi is a 1754 metre peak in the northeastern corner of New Zealand's North Island, southwest of East Cape...

 (1755 m/5758 ft), is part of this range. Other prominent peaks include Maungahaumi

Maungahaumi

Maungahaumi is a mountain in the Raukumara Range in the northeast of New Zealand's North Island.Part of the backbone of the range, which forms part of a line of mountains extending across much of the North Island, 1213 metre Maungahaumi is the southernmost of the Raukumara Range's four major peaks...

 (1213 m/3979 ft), Mount Aorangi

Mount Aorangi

Mount Aorangi is the highest mountain, 3,135 m, in the Millen Range of Antarctica. So named by the NZFMCAE, 1962–63, because of this mountain's cloud-piercing ability, and also with reference to Aoraki/Mount Cook, New Zealand, Aorangi or Aoraki meaning cloud piercer.Aorangi is also one of the most...

 (1272 m/4173 ft), Mount Arowhana

Mount Arowhana

Mount Arowhana lies in the Raukumara Range in the northeast of New Zealand's North Island. Part of the backbone of the range, which forms part of a line of mountains extending across much of the North Island, 1440 metre Arowhana is second only to Mount Hikurangi in terms of height within the...

 (1440 m/4724 ft), and Mount Raukumara

Mount Raukumara

Mount Raukumara is the northernmost major peak in the Raukumara Range in the northeast of New Zealand's North Island. Part of the backbone of the range, which forms part of a line of mountains extending across much of the North Island, 1343 metre Raukumara is the third-highest peak in the range...

 (1343 m/4404 ft).

See also

• Geology of the Raukumara Region
  Geology of the Raukumara Region
  The Raukumara Region of New Zealand corresponds to the East Cape of the North Island, and associated mountain ranges.To the east of the North Island is the Hikurangi Trough, a collision zone between the Pacific Plate and the Australian Plate...