Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Mount Maunganui is a town in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, located on a peninsula to the north of Tauranga. Mount Maunganui fought fiercely during the 1950s to retain independence from Tauranga, then failed with the completion of the harbour bridge in 1988. It is also the name of the extinct volcanic cone which rises above the town. According to Maori legend, this hill was a pononga to a mountain called Otanewainuku. It is colloquially known in New Zealand simply as The Mount.