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Story: Canoe traditions

Takapaukura (Tom Bowling Bay)

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Takapaukura (Tom Bowling Bay)

This is the bay near North Cape where the Kurahaupō canoe, captained by Pōhurihanga, is said to have landed.

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Rāwiri Taonui, Canoe traditions – Canoes of the northern tide, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/2304/takapaukura-tom-bowling-bay (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Rāwiri Taonui, published 4 March 2009.