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==In popular culture== The name is referenced in various works: * The name is the subject of a 1960 song by the New Zealand balladeer [[Peter Cape]].<ref>[http://folksong.org.nz/petrcape.html New Zealand Folk Song: Peter Cape] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210209051034/http://www.folksong.org.nz/petrcape.html |date=9 February 2021 }} According to this source, Cape calls it "Taumata".</ref> * It appears in the 1976 (re-released in 1979) single "The Lone Ranger" by British band [[Quantum Jump]], which featured in the title sequence of the second series of ''[[The Kenny Everett Video Show]]''.{{citation needed|date=October 2014}} * It is featured in a [[Mountain Dew]] jingle and a [[SEEK]] Learning TV ad in Australia.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Long Name, Bro – Learnings from SEEK Learning |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddiU9dyzDNk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131119063929/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddiU9dyzDNk |archive-date=2013-11-19 |access-date=10 February 2015 |website=[[YouTube]]}}</ref> * The name is featured in the 2019 song "Open Road" by New Zealand artist Ra Costelloe.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://genius.com/Ra-costelloe-open-road-lyrics | title=Ra Costelloe – Open Road }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://music.apple.com/gh/album/open-road-single/1418109207 | title=Open Road – Single by Ra Costelloe on Apple Music }}</ref> Tennis star [[Martina Navratilova]] learned to say the word when she was ten years old.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Louisa Wall |date=29 March 2011 |title=A real show from the titans of tennis |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10009589 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190624233852/https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10009589 |archive-date=24 June 2019 |access-date=28 March 2011 |work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |quote=And on a rainy day in Czechoslovakia, a bored 10-year-old Navratilova learned one of the longest place names in the world. Little did she know that one day she would be in New Zealand, saying {{shy|Taumata|whakatangihanga|koauau|o|tamatea|pokai|whenua|ki|tana|tahu}} to compliment her thanks to the people of Tamaki Makaurau for their hospitality.}}</ref>
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