It is on the western edge of the town of Kaikohe.

To its north east are the extinct volcanic cones of Putahi and Tarahi and Lake Ōmāpere.

It is a basaltic scoria cone in the southern part of the Kaikohe-Bay of Islands volcanic field.

[1] The geological basement to the nearby volcanoes is likely to be the Permian-Mesozoic Waipapa Group argillite at perhaps more than 1,736 ft (529 m) deep as defined by drill hole at the near by thermal Ngawha Springs and seismic studies.

[2] The slopes of the hill contain a memorial park to Hōne Heke Ngāpua, a great-grand nephew of Hōne Heke and leader in Māori autonomy.