We've had it wrong all the time

We've had it wrong all the time - Mt Taranaki is in the South Island, not the North.

That's according to calendar manufacturer John Sands.

One of the Melbourne-based company's New Zealand pictorial calendars contains a photograph of Mt Taranaki at dusk, and the caption tells us that our mountain is in the South Island.

The error was spotted by New Plymouth's Charles Delworth, who had bought five of the $4.99 calendars to send to friends overseas. "It's a lovely wee calendar - except for the blunder," he said.

But how did it happen?

A John Sands' spokeswoman said she would find out how the error made it into the calendar, which was printed in China.

If anyone who had purchased the calendar was offended by the error, it would be replaced with another.

But she had no idea how the error had occurred.

So we contacted Dunedin photographer David Wall who took the photograph of Mt Taranaki at dusk.

He'd already been emailed about the captioning error, and he also had no idea how it happened.

"I think we just need to put it down to being one of those things," he said.

"I'd like to assure everyone that Mt Taranaki is indeed still in the North Island - in fact we have 700 images of the mountain on our website.

"And I've just been up there taking more pictures.

"We flew over and around the mountain at sunrise, and as the sun came up it was orange and then pink. Absolutely stunning."