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Kōrero: Pacific migrations

Te Wai Nui (Pacific), te moana nui rawa o te ao

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I tangohia te whakaahua nei i te rangiātea, mai te waka ātea Galileo i te tau 1990. E 2.6 miriona kiromita tōna tawhiti i te whenua. Kātahi ka mārama te nui whakahirahira o Te Wai Nui (Pacific); nui ake Te Wai Nui i ngā whenua katoa o te ao. Noho marara ana ngā moutere. Ehara i te mea e rite ana te takoto o ēnei moutere – he wai katoa te pito Tonga me te pito Rāwhiti o Te Wai Nui, heoi he nui ngā moutere ki te taha uru me te pokapū.

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Geoff Irwin, Pacific migrations – The world’s first seafarers, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/1760/te-wai-nui-pacific-te-moana-nui-rawa-o-te-ao (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Geoff Irwin, i tāngia i te 4 March 2009, updated 8 February 2017.

Comments

connor
12 November 2010
with out it we would die
Akshay Sharma
28 July 2010
isay that pacific ocean is rich minerals also.