Mountain · Coromandel Range · Waikato Region

Motutere / Castle Rock

525 m1,722 ft

Prominence: 176 m577 ft
Isolation: 2.0 km
Tonight: 7°CPartly cloudy · Wind 18 km/h W

Motutere / Castle Rock is a 525 m (1,722 ft) mountain in the Coromandel Range, Waikato Region, New Zealand.

All facts

Elevation: 525 m · 1,722 ft
Nearest higher peak: Mount Hobson (627 m)
Range: Coromandel Range
Region: Waikato Region, New Zealand
Coordinates: 36.8035° S, 175.5626° E

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3D map

Motutere / Castle Rock 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Motutere / Castle Rock terrain and contours

20 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

Index contours every 100 mShowing west → east through the summit

Motutere / Castle Rock elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Motutere / Castle Rock weather

Today · Clear · 7 / 17°C (45 / 63°F) · Wind 18 km/h W

Motutere / Castle Rock forecast for the summit, about 525 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 14 m.

Today7°17°–18 km/h WBase 10 / 21°
Sun6°16°–18 km/h WBase 9 / 19°
Mon9°17°1.1 mm24 km/h NWBase 12 / 20°
Tue7°14°12.0 mm24 km/h NWBase 10 / 17°
Wed7°15°–16 km/h SWBase 10 / 18°
Thu9°15°2.2 mm27 km/h WBase 12 / 18°
Fri8°15°0.1 mm23 km/h SWBase 11 / 18°
Sat6°16°–14 km/h WBase 9 / 19°
Sun5°15°0.9 mm14 km/h NBase 8 / 18°
Mon11°19°1.8 mm19 km/h NBase 14 / 22°

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 24, 01:17 UTC.

Slope

Share of the 6 × 6 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.

Gentle, 0–15°

28.6%

Moderate, 15–30°

57.5%

Steep, 30–45°

13.6%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.3%

Steeper than 30°: 13.9% of the 36 km² view
Relief in view: 550 m low point 14 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 98.5%Grassland 1.5%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3 km; 137 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Helm's Butterfly8
Northern Striped Gecko6
Archey's Frog5
Rewarewa5
Kauri4
Krauss's clubmoss4

Where it sits

Where Motutere / Castle Rock sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Ōhinerau / Mount HobsonPeak · 143 m70 km W

Downloads

Motutere / Castle Rock downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Print & wall

JPGMotutere / Castle Rock satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-03-03.

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GIS & GPS

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

32 m low This 3D map reads 493 m at the summit; the official height is 525 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 47 m.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	525 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	493 m	-32 m
Copernicus GLO-90	478 m	-47 m

Data sources

Terrain: Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Imagery: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-03-03)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Wildlife: iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Accuracy comparison, Panorama: Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Forecast: Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources: Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia