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Kōrero: Canoe navigation

Te Au-o-Tonga me Te Aurere i Te Tai Rāwhiti, 2000

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Nā ngā haere angitū a Hōkūle‘a ka ora anō ngā tikanga whakatere waka o Te Moananui-a-Kiwa. Ka hahaungia ētahi atu waka. I tāraia a Te Aurere (taha matau i te taha o Te Au-o-Tonga), e Hekenukumai Busby i te tau 1991. Nō te tau o muri mai ka ruku a Te Aurere ki roto i ngā āwhā me ngā moana whakapukepuke i tana haerenga atu i Aotearoa ki Rarotonga. Ehara i te mea he tohu tēnei haerenga ki te mea i hokihoki ai ngā tāngata tōmua o Aotearoa ki Poronihia ki te rāwhiti, heoi i whakaatu noa tēnei haerenga i te mea, ka taea tērā haere i runga i ngā mātauranga i a rātou i aua wā. Whakarongo ki a Pakake Winiata, tētahi o ngā kauhoe i runga i a Te Aurere, e whakamārama ana i te take i tōia ai te waka i ētahi wāhanga o te haerenga atu i Aotearoa ki Rarotonga.

He kōnae nō Radio New Zealand Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero. He takahi manatārua te whakamahi anō i te kōnae nei. Ki te tono mō te kōnae whakapā atu ki Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero. (Waka Te Aurere; Pakake Winiata/Tau whakapuakanga C930209G)

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

New Zealand Herald

Reference: 13 April 2000

by Nicola Topping

Sound file from Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision. Any re-use of this audio is a breach of copyright. Reference: Waka Te Aurere; Pakake Winiata / Reference number 10386.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Rāwiri Taonui, Canoe navigation – Recent voyaging, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/speech/2237/te-au-o-tonga-me-te-aurere-i-te-tai-rawhiti-2000 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Rāwiri Taonui, i tāngia i te 4 March 2009.

Comments

merekaraka wikotu
25 May 2011
Kia ora i was on Te au o tonga when i was 12yrs old the year was 2000 im now 22yrs and still remember like it was yesterday