Mount Grey is a 934-metre (3,065 ft) mountain 15 kilometres (9.3 miles) west of Amberley in New Zealand.[1] It is named after Sir George Grey who was governor of New Zealand when English surveyors climbed it in 1849.[2] In Te Reo Māori, the mountain is Maukatere, "floating mountain", from where the spirits of the dead leave on the long journey to Cape Reinga.[3]
It is known as the mountain associated with the Kaiapoi-based Ngāi Tūāhuriri hapū of Ngai Tahu.[4] Maukatere marked the inland boundary of the Crown purchase of the Canterbury and Otago area recorded in "Kemp's Deed" in 1848.[5]
In 1998, the settling of the Ngāi Tahu Treaty claim updated the official name of the mountain to Mount Grey / Maukatere.[6][2]
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