Taranakiball

Taranakiball
General information
Government	Commonwealth monarchy
Language(s)	English
Type	Regionball
Capital	New Plymouth
Affiliation	New Zealandball

Taranakiball is a regionball of New Zealandball. It is named after a volcano named Mount Taranaki.

Geography

Taranakiball is on the west coast of the North Island on New Zealandball. Taranakiball surronds a volcano called Mount Taranaki (Formerly Mount Egmont). Taranakiball has an area of 7258km². The bays that are northwest and southwest of Taranakiball are called North Taranaki Bight and South Taranaki Bight.

Mount Taranaki or Mounga Taranaki is a main feature of Taranakiball. Mount Taranaki is the second highest mountain on the North Island of New Zealandball, with a height of 2,518m. Maoriball legend states that Mount Taranaki used to live beside Mount Tongariro, Mount Ngauruhoe and Mount Ruapehu. However, Mount Taranaki fled to it's current location after a fight with Mount Tongariro. Mount Taranaki is an almost perfect cone shape and last erupted in the mid-18th century.

History

Taranakiball became home to Maoriball Tribes in the 13th Century. Then from 1823, the Maoriball began having interaction with European whalers as well as traders who arrived to buy flax (Harakeke). Around the 1820's and 1830's, whalers targeted whales in the south Taranaki Bight. In march 1828 , Richard Barret arrived from Englandball and set up a trading post at Ngamotu (New Plymouth). Barret and his comppanions were welcomed to Ngamotu by a Maoriball tribe called Āti Awa. They were welcomed because they brought with them cannons and muskets and helped the Āti Awa with their war with Maoriball from Waikatoball. However, after a bloody encounter near New Plymouth, most of the Āti Awa and Barret headed south towards Kapiti and Marlboroughball.

European settlement in Taranakiball began with the arrival of the William Bryan in March 1814.