Mount Taranaki or Mount Egmont?

Someone I know has gone up to Taranaki for the weekend and they sent a txt back to us saying "I can see Mt Egmont today". Now I don't like this name but apparently that's what their family and friends up there still call the mountain. I prefer to call the mountain Mount Taranaki as this is it's original name.

Time for a little history lesson. For many centuries the mountain was called Taranaki. Captain Cook named it Mount Egmont in the 1700s after John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont. John Perceval was a British politician, political pamphleteer, and genealogist. He was one of Captain Cook's corporate sponsors, and a syphillitic Lord who never set foot in this country! In other words Captain Cook thought he should name something after one of the people who helped pay for his trip! What a crazy person for a marvellous mountain as this to be named after!

In the 1980s it was ruled that the official name is Mount Taranaki or Mount Egmont. However, I think the mountain should be called Mount Taranaki - it's original name. It gives the mountain the mana that it deserves (a weird name like Egmont certainly does not!)