Maungati

Maungati is a lightly populated locality[1] situated approximately 18 miles southwest of Timaru in the Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island. It is a small farming community in an area with primarily sheep and cattle farming and some deer farming, and it has a 9-hole golf course and Māori rock drawings.

Maungati

Maungati comes from the Māori language words "maunga", meaning "mountain", and "tī", meaning "cabbage tree", and thus means "mountain of cabbage tree".[2] There are many cabbage trees in the area.

References
  1. "Place name detail: Maungati". New Zealand Gazetteer. New Zealand Geographic Board. Retrieved 20 May 2005.
  2. "1000 Māori place names". New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage. 6 August 2019.

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