A report on Ngāti Whātua and Kaipara Harbour
The local Māori tribe is Ngāti Whātua.
- Kaipara HarbourBy the time of European settlement in New Zealand, Ngāti Whātua's territory was around the Kaipara Harbour and stretching south to Tāmaki Makaurau, the site of present-day Auckland.
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Te Uri-o-Hau
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Te Uri-o-Hau is a Māori iwi (tribe) of the greater Ngāti Whātua confederation.
Its rohe (area) includes Dargaville, Maungaturoto, Mangawhai, Kaiwaka, Wellsford and the Kaipara Harbour.
Māhuhu-ki-te-rangi
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One of the great ocean-going, voyaging canoes that was used in the migrations that settled New Zealand.
According to Māori traditions, the waka Māhuhu-ki-te-rangi explored the upper reaches of the North Island north of the Kaipara Harbour during early Māori settlement of New Zealand.
The alternative narrative, told by the Te Uri-o-Hau and Te Taoū (from the Ngāti Whātua tribe of Helensville and Auckland) has Māhuhu under the command of Rongomai and stopping not at Kawerua but Tāporapora Island in the Kaipara Harbour (this island no longer exists).
Battle of Moremonui
0 linksThe battle of Moremonui was fought between Ngāti Whātua and Ngāpuhi, two Māori iwi (tribes), in northern New Zealand in either 1807 or 1808.
The battle of Moremonui was preceded by skirmishes in 1806 between Ngāpuhi in the north, led by one of their rangatira (chiefs), Pokaia, on one side, and Kaipara subtribes of Ngāti Whātua in the south on the other.
Northland Region
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Northernmost of New Zealand's 16 local government regions.
Two large inlets are also located on this coast, the massive Kaipara Harbour in the south, which Northland shares with the Auckland Region, and the convoluted inlets of the Hokianga Harbour.
Major tribal groups include Ngāpuhi, Te Aupōuri, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Kurī and Ngāti Whātua.