Editing Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu (section)

===Other versions===
[[File:NZs-longest-place-name.jpg|thumb|left|An older sign for the hill in 2013]]

The name has multiple alternative forms, some of them being longer still. ''{{lang|mi|{{shy|Taumata|whakatangi|hanga|koauau|o|tamatea|ure|haea|turi|pukaka|piki|maunga|horo|nuku|pokai|whenua|ki|tana|tahu}}}}'' has 92 letters. An even longer version, ''{{lang|mi|Taumata-whakatangihanga-koauau-o-Tamatea-hau-mai-tawhiti-ure-haea-turi-pukaka-piki-maunga-horo-nuku-pokai-whenua-ki-tana-tahu}}'', has 105 letters and means "the hill of the flute playing by Tamatea – who was blown hither from afar, had a [[Dorsal slit|slit penis]], grazed his knees climbing mountains, fell on the earth, and encircled the land – to his beloved one".<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Denniston |first1=George C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K6Ho2pAV35sC&pg=PA130 |title=Understanding Circumcision: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to a Multi-Dimensional Problem |last2=Frederick Mansfield Hodges |last3=Marilyn Fayre Milos |date=31 October 2001 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-0-306-46701-1 |page=130 |access-date=26 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026055106/https://books.google.com/books?id=K6Ho2pAV35sC&pg=PA130#v=onepage&q&f=false |archive-date=26 October 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Maps from 1929 published by the [[Department of Lands and Survey]] use a 28-character name ''{{lang|mi|{{shy|Taumata|whakatangihanga|koauau}}}}''.<ref>{{Cite map |publisher=NZ Lands and Survey |title=HB41: Porangahau Survey District |year=1929 |scale=1:63360 |series=NZMS13 |cartography=W. J. Harding |section=HB41 |url=https://geodatahub.library.auckland.ac.nz/public/maps/LINZ/NZMS/NZMS_013/jpg/NZMS013_HB41_1929.jpg |access-date=26 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225211630/https://geodatahub.library.auckland.ac.nz/public/maps/LINZ/NZMS/NZMS_013/jpg/NZMS013_HB41_1929.jpg |archive-date=25 February 2020 |url-status=live |format=JPEG}}</ref><ref>{{LINZ|50879|{{shy|Taumata|whakatangihanga|koauau}}|26 February 2020}}</ref> In 1941, the [[Honorary Geographic Board of New Zealand]] renamed the hill to a 57-character name ''{{lang|mi|{{shy|Taumata|whakatangihanga|koauau|o|tamatea|pokai|whenua|ki|tana|tahu}}}}'', which has been an official name since 1948, and first appeared in a 1955 map.<ref>{{Cite map |last=Lands and Survey Department |author-link=Lands and Survey Department |title=Porangahau |year=1955 |edition=1st |scale=1:63360 |series=NZMS1 |section=N151 |url=https://geodatahub.library.auckland.ac.nz/public/maps/LINZ/NZMS/NZMS_001/jpg/NZMS001_N151_1955.jpg |access-date=26 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225211631/https://geodatahub.library.auckland.ac.nz/public/maps/LINZ/NZMS/NZMS_001/jpg/NZMS001_N151_1955.jpg |archive-date=25 February 2020 |url-status=live |format=JPEG}}</ref> The New Zealand Geographic Placenames Database, maintained by [[Land Information New Zealand]] (LINZ), shows the official name with [[Macron (diacritic)|macrons]] {{lang|mi|{{shy|Taumata|whakatangihanga|kōauau|o|tamatea|pōkai|whenua|ki|tāna|tahu}}}}.<ref>{{LINZ|5847|{{shy|Taumata|whakatangihanga|kōauau|o|tamatea|pōkai|whenua|ki|tāna|tahu}}|8 August 2019}}</ref>