A report on Auckland and Ngāti Whātua

Print of a painting of Auckland port, 1857

Queen Street (c.1889); painting by Jacques Carabain. Most of the buildings depicted were demolished during rampant modernisation in the 1970s.

Looking east over the area that became Wynyard Quarter with the Auckland CBD in the middle distance, c. 1950s.

Satellite view of the Auckland isthmus and Waitematā Harbour

A view over Chelsea Sugar Refinery's lower dam towards Auckland Harbour Bridge and the CBD

The volcanic Rangitoto Island in the Hauraki Gulf, with the remnant of Takaroro / Mount Cambria in the foreground (yellow, grassy reserve) . Viewed from Takarunga / Mount Victoria over Devonport.

Asians are Auckland's fastest growing ethnic group. Here, lion dancers perform at the Auckland Lantern Festival.

St Matthew-in-the-City, a historic Anglican church in the Auckland CBD

Projection of the Auckland Region's population growth to 2031

The modern section of the Auckland Art Gallery, completed in 2011

View from the top of Maungawhau / Mount Eden

The twin towers of the National Bank Centre are among the tallest buildings in Auckland

Terraced housing built in 1897 as residential buildings and associated place houses for John Endean

Auckland Town Hall entrance on Queen Street

Old Government House, former residence of the Governor

The University of Auckland clock tower building is a 'Category I' historic place, completed in 1926

Railway lines serve the western, southern and eastern parts of the city from the Britomart Transport Centre.

Aerial view of the Auckland Harbour Bridge

The Auckland CBD skyline and Harbour Bridge at sunset.

The International Terminal at Auckland International Airport

Otahuhu Power Station's 404MW combined cycle turbine, also known as Otahuhu B

The confederation came to an end around 1741, when paramount chief Kiwi Tāmaki was killed in battle by Ngāti Whātua hapū Te Taoū chief Te Waha-akiaki.

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Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei

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Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei or Ngāti Whātua-o-Ōrākei is an Auckland-based Māori hapū (sub-tribe) in New Zealand.

Together with Te Uri-o-Hau, Te Roroa and Te Taoū, it comprises the iwi (tribe) of Ngāti Whātua.

Apihai Te Kawau

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Hand-tinted lithograph of Apihai Te Kawau (seated) and his nephew Rēweti Tamahiki at Ōrākai, by George French Angas, 1847

Apihai Te Kawau (died November 1869) was a paramount chief of the Ngāti Whātua Māori iwi (tribe) of Auckland (Tāmaki Makaurau), New Zealand in the 19th century.

Iwi

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Iwi are the largest social units in New Zealand Māori society.

Each iwi contains a number of hapū; among the hapū of the Ngāti Whātua iwi, for example, are Te Uri-o-Hau, Te Roroa, Te Taoū, and Ngāti Whātua-o-Ōrākei.

Ngāti Whātua (based in and north of Auckland – notably Bastion Point in Ōrākei)

Portrait of Capt. William Hobson by James McDonald, 1913

Capital of New Zealand

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Wellington has been the capital of New Zealand since 1865.

The first Government House in Auckland, as painted by Edward Ashworth in 1842 or 1843

Auckland's third Government House, shown here in the 1860s or 1870s, is today known as Old Government House

General Assembly House in Auckland in the 1870s, known as the "Shedifice"

1867 watercolour of the Wellington Provincial Council Building by L. B. Temple

Auckland was the second capital from 1841 until 1865, when Parliament was permanently moved to Wellington after an argument that persisted for a decade.

On 18 September, the land (some 3000 acre) had been chosen and an agreement signed with Āpihai Te Kawau and others representing the Ngāti Whātua iwi.