Story: Tāmaki tribes

Awhitū Peninsula

Ngāti Te Ata occupied Waiuku and the Awhitū Peninsula on the southern shores of Manukau Harbour.

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Rāwiri Taonui, Tāmaki tribes – The tribes of Tāmaki, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/3924/awhitu-peninsula (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Rāwiri Taonui, published 4 March 2009, updated 22 March 2017.