Titirangi (hill)

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Template:Short description Template:Use New Zealand English Template:Use dmy dates Titirangi is a hill in Gisborne, New Zealand.[1] It is also known as Kaiti Hill, but this refers to the first ridge overlooking Poverty Bay and Gisborne.[2] The hill is an ancestral site of the Ngāti Oneone hapū (sub-tribe) in Gisborne. It is at the base of this hill that Captain James Cook came ashore, after first sighting New Zealand in October 1769.

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