Story: Canoe traditions

The Mercury Islands

Commanded by Pāoa, the Horouta canoe landed at Ahuahu (Great Mercury Island), pictured in the foreground.

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by Lloyd Homer

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Rāwiri Taonui, Canoe traditions – Canoes of the East Coast, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/2357/the-mercury-islands (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Rāwiri Taonui, published 4 March 2009.