Pouerua


Pouerua is a 270 m high basaltic scoria cone, in the Kaikohe-Bay of Islands volcanic field in New Zealand. It is in the locality of Pakaraka and was the site of a that was studied during a major archeological project in the 1980s. Pouerua is registered with the Historic Places Trust as a traditional site.
The last Māori who occupied Pouerua were the Ngāti Rāhiri subtribe of Ngāpuhi. They left in about 1860.
According to the Historic Places Trust: