Te Rau-o-te-Huia / Mount Donald McLean is a hill in the Waitākere Ranges of the Auckland Region of New Zealand's North Island. It is located to the south of the ranges, near the township of Huia. It i
View of Te Rau-o-te-Huia / Mount Donald McLean from Huia Road
A windswept Hall's tōtara (Podocarpus laetus) on the slopes of Te Rau-o-te-Huia / Mount Donald McLean
a tomtit (Petroica macrocephala) on Te Rau-o-te-Huia / Mount Donald McLean
Cyathea medullaris on Te Rau-o-te-Huia / Mount Donald McLean
Sir Donald McLean was a 19th-century New Zealand politician and government official. He was involved in negotiations between the settler government and Māori from 1844 to 1861, eventually as Native Se
Te Rau-o-te-Huia / Mount Donald McLean
…describe both the mountain and the surrounding bay. The plumes were a metaphor for expressing his pride in the area. In English, the hill was named after Donald McLean, a government administrator and major figure in Māori-Pākehā relations in the mid-19th Century. During the 1850s, the Gibbons family milled the kauri…
Donald McLean in the 1870s
Donald McLean purchasing land at Wairoa, Hawke's Bay