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… Kaipara Harbour Largest enclosed harbour and estuarine … the Tasman Sea by two large sandbank peninsulas. The upper Kaipara lies in Northland region and includes the large … commercial fishing had depleted fish and seafood in the Kaipara Harbour. Concerned locals have been frustrated in …
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Part of story: Northland places
… Kaipara Harbour Vast harbour on the western side of … peninsula, and traditional home of Ngāti Whātua. The Kaipara is 500 sq km, with at least 800 km of coastline, has … headlands. It contains the lower reaches of the Wairoa and Kaipara rivers. Timber port In spite of a treacherous bar at …
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Part of story: Auckland places
… Ngāti Whātua's lands border four harbours – Hokianga, Kaipara, Waitematā and Manukau – and their ancestors include …
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… Te Taoū Te Uri-o-Hau came to control the northern part of Kaipara Harbour and Te Taoū the south. This happened when … River to settle at Poutō, on the northern side of the Kaipara Harbour entrance, but was killed during a dispute … Tainui, who led several ferocious campaigns through the Kaipara area. The most destructive of these was known as Te …
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Part of story: Ngāti Whātua
… the western side the Tasman Sea pounds the coastline from Kaipara Harbour south to Port Waikato. Two inlets form huge shallow harbours, the Kaipara and the Manukau. To the east, the subtropical … long been a valuable link with northern and southern ports. Kaipara Harbour Fifty kilometres north of the Manukau is …
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Part of story: Auckland region
… from Wairoa in Hawke’s Bay) is the principal river feeding Kaipara Harbour from the north. Broad and straight for the … Wairoa River by ships of up to 3,000 tons which braved the Kaipara Harbour bar before making the journey to Onehunga, … in the north to low-lying North Head at the entrance to Kaipara Harbour in the south. When most of inland Northland …
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Part of story: Northland places
… fled the fury of muskets during this time, much of the Kaipara and Auckland areas became abandoned wastelands. The … Te Taoū suffered equally harshly. Nearly 60% of land at Kaipara Harbour passed out of Māori control before 1865. Of the remaining Kaipara lands that went before the Native Land Court before …
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Part of story: Ngāti Whātua
… Manukau Harbour, and walked twice from Waitematā Harbour to Kaipara and on to the Bay of Islands. On the way he explored … looking for sites for mission stations. They began at Kaipara Harbour, paddled up the Waikato River to … newcomers. Once is enough James Buller’s long journey from Kaipara to Port Nicholson in 1839 was repeated by another …
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Part of story: European exploration
… harbours. Bar harbours The bar harbours of Hokianga and Kaipara on the North Island’s west coast were especially feared. One of the sand bars at the entrance to Kaipara Harbour is known as the Graveyard. It has been the … of any size or shape, could at this time have entered the Kaipara; instant shipwreck, into a thousand pieces, would …
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Part of story: Shipwrecks
… name Te Rarawa comes from an incident on the shores of the Kaipara Harbour. Te Ripo, a high-born woman, was killed by a war party from the Kaipara. An avenging party led by Ngāmotu pursued the warriors south to Kaipara Harbour. However, the fleeing party crossed the …
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Part of story: Muriwhenua tribes
… later established stations at Kāwhia, Whāingaroa (Raglan), Kaipara and Manukau. Hokianga had become the main centre for … from obtaining proper title to a large tract of land at the Kaipara that was to be offered by him to the New Zealand … of considerable consequence to the Māori at Hokianga and Kaipara as both consultant and trader. When his nephew …
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… of Whangārei Harbour, and by conquest his power extended to Kaipara Harbour. His main place of residence was Tangiterōria, about half-way between Whangārei and Kaipara harbours. As a young man Tirarau witnessed … sold. In 1842 he threatened the settler Thomas Forsaith at Kaipara over a breach of tapu after a skull was found on …
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… Taramainuku, Kahumatamomoe named the adjacent harbour Te Kaiparapara-a-Kahumatamomoe after the king fern (kaipara) that Taramainuku fed them. Kahumatamomoe alone …
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Part of story: Ngā waewae tapu – Māori exploration
… scene, with three notable exceptions: Gordon Coates won the Kaipara seat in 1911 and held it until his death in 1943. He … for local administration – Far North (based at Kaikohe), Kaipara (based at Dargaville), and Whangarei. There are a … A budget blowout on a sewerage scheme in Mangawhai made the Kaipara District Council the most indebted in the country …
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Part of story: Northland region
… canoe, which landed on the west coast between Kaipara Harbour and the Hokianga. And they share links with … a promontory opposite the entrance to Kaipara Harbour. Rongomai drowned when his canoe capsized, …
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Part of story: Ngāti Whātua
… landed at Te Awanui, near Kaitāia. Stories from the Kaipara region say that Tākitimu also landed there, and a … on the Waitematā, then use another portage to access Kaipara Harbour. From here they could travel along the …
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Part of story: Canoe traditions
… three miles inland from the head of Pahi River, north-east Kaipara. The Hames were members of the nonconformist … many to the scheme, on 70,000 acres on the shores of the Kaipara Harbour, the offer of free land was also a strong … one visit the sailboat was becalmed and drifted out through Kaipara Heads, fortunately returning with the change in …
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… Cruising the shallow waters in harbours such as Whangārei, Kaipara, Waitematā and Tauranga, orcas forage along the … the Bay of Islands and Kaikōura, and on the west coast at Kaipara Harbour. They can swim as far as 150 kilometres a …
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Part of story: Orcas
… He also bought land in Waikato, at Āwhitu and on the Kaipara, until he was said to be the largest agriculturalist … the largest was the 9,378 acre South Head property on the Kaipara Harbour. This was bought in two parts: the first … and Marine Insurance Company of New Zealand in 1876; of the Kaipara Steamship Company Limited, which he had promoted, in …
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… (Moehau to Hauraki) Tama’s grandchildren Taramainuku (Kaipara), Warenga (Tai Tokerau), Huarere (Hauraki and Tāmaki). Tama’s grandson Īhenga explored Waiariki and Kaipara. When Tamatekapua died he was buried at Te … Later in life they resettled in the north – Īhenga in the Kaipara and Kahu at Te Whanga-o-Kahumatamomoe (Ōkahu Bay) on …
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Part of story: Te Arawa