The Te Aratauwhāiti canoe, captained by Tīwakawaka, landed at Whakatāne. It beached at Ōpihi Spit (the full name is Ōpihi-whanaunga-kore), at the mouth of the river. The photograph is taken from Kaputerangi, a headland on which the people of the canoe built a pā.
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