In 1770, the British explorer Captain James Cook spotted the peak from his ship and named it Mount Egmont. In 1840, Māori tribes and representatives of the British crown signed the Treaty of ...

It was granted all the legal rights and responsibilities as a human being, and it will leave behind its British colonial name Mount Egmont. The mountain is considered by the Māori to be among ...

It was granted all the legal rights and responsibilities as a human being, and it will leave behind its British colonial name Mount Egmont. The mountain is considered by the Māori to be among their ...

A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people was recognized as a legal person on Thursday after a new law granted it all the rights and responsibilities of a human being.

In 1770, the British explorer, Captain James Cook, spotted the peak from his ship and named it Mount Egmont. In 1840, Māori tribes and representatives of the British crown signed the Treaty of ...

Colonisers of New Zealand in the 18th and 19th centuries took the mountain from the tribes after British explorer Captain James Cook spotted the peak from his ship and renamed it Mount Egmont.