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… and Wānaka. Place-name clusters Hikurangi and Aorangi Hikurangi and Aorangi were a pair of names transferred from Tahiti via Rarotonga to different parts of New Zealand. Aorangi and Hikurangi are mountain names of special …
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Part of story: Tapa whenua – naming places
… inhabit. Other houses in the area have fallen into the sea. Aorangi Forest Park Forest area in the Aorangi Range, between Martinborough and Cape Palliser. The … Dramatic eroded landforms 10 km south-east of Lake Ferry in Aorangi Forest Park. Soaring like skyscrapers, the pillars …
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Part of story: Wairarapa places
… Meihana Te Rama Apakura, was born on his father's farm at Aorangi, near Feilding, on 1 July 1889. His father, Robert … death of his father in 1916, he took his family to live at Aorangi. In the 1920s and 1930s Durie was well known as an … Māori Pastorate. With his wife, Kahu, he maintained the Aorangi marae as a whānau marae, and saw to the erection …
Type: Biography
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… Marotiri), and the Poor Knights Islands (Tawhiti Rahi and Aorangi). Ngātiwai Trust Board In the early 2000s the …
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Part of story: Whangārei tribes
… marine birds was made in 1936. At that time, wild pigs on Aorangi, one of the Poor Knights Islands, had reduced the … paid deer cullers to eradicate the pigs, and by 1981 Aorangi’s shearwater population had soared to 200,000 pairs. …
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Part of story: Marine conservation
… Two historic meeting houses, Manaiahu and Kauwhata, are at Aorangi and Te Arakura, a few kilometres south of Feilding. …
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Part of story: Manawatū and Horowhenua places
… Puhi also named the Poor Knights Islands (Tawhitirahi and Aorangi). Manaia – the mountain and the ancestor Traditions …
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Part of story: Whangārei tribes
… people then settled on the Poor Knights (Tawhiti Rahi and Aorangi) and Hen and Chickens (Taranga and Marotiri) …
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Part of story: Nearshore islands
… They have eaten nearly all of the rātā trees from the Aorangi Range, and have almost wiped out mistletoes in the …
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Part of story: Introduced animal pests
… to browsing by possums. Many trees died in the Ruahine and Aorangi ranges as possum numbers increased in their forests. …
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Part of story: Tall broadleaf trees
… Park. These include the Poor Knights (Tawhiti Rahi and Aorangi) and the Hen and Chickens (Taranga and Marotiri); …
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Part of story: Nearshore islands
… tracts of forest from the Coromandel Peninsula south to the Aorangi Range in the Wairarapa, and the central North Island …
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Part of story: Large forest birds
… Huiarau, Kaimanawa, Kaweka, Ruahine, Tararua, Remutaka and Aorangi ranges are the northern continuation of the Southern …
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Part of story: Landscapes – overview
… Company bought five high-class ships, the Tongariro , Aorangi , Ruapehu, Kaikoura and Rimutaka , almost as big as …
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Part of story: Shipping
… (near Palmerston North). From there he headed to Te Aorangi (Feilding) and the Pūrākau and Te Rākauhou forests …
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Part of story: Ngā waewae tapu – Māori exploration
… (Taranga and Marotiri), Poor Knights (Tawhiti Rahi and Aorangi) and Cavalli islands. The Bay of Islands is named …
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Part of story: Northland region
… Tui Alfreda Mayo was born on 13 January 1905 at Aorangi, Manawatu, the youngest of four daughters of Annie …
Type: Biography
… from Sandy Bay. The two main islands are Tawhiti Rahi and Aorangi, with Aorangaia and Archway islands at the southern …
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Part of story: Northland places
… the first of numerous major prizes he was to capture. Aorangi and other verses , his first collection of poems, … Wright's demotic poetry flourished after the publication of Aorangi , and from April 1896 he produced a series of works …
Type: Biography
… by deforestation and overstocking. To the south is the Aorangi Range, distinguished by its greywacke basement rock. …
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Part of story: Wairarapa region