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The New
Zealand Maori name for a hill near Porangahau, Hawkes
Bay, is spelt with either 85 or 92 letters.
The hill used to be called
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukaka
pikimaunga horonukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu (85 letters).
That is a
combination of the words:
taumata
(brow of a hill)
whakatangihanga (music making)
koauau
(flute)
o (of)
tamatea (name
of a famous Maori chief)
turi pukaka
(bony knees)
piki maunga
(climbing a mountain)
horo (slip)
nuku (move)
pokai whenua
(widely travelled)
ki (to)
tana (his)
tahu
(beloved)

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