Story: Muaūpoko

Lake Papaitonga

The beautiful Lake Papaitonga is famous in Muaūpoko history. It was there in the 1820s that the tribe attacked Ngāti Toa and killed two children of the chief Te Rauparaha, to avenge the murder, by Ngāti Toa, of a Muaūpoko woman.

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Darren Reid, Muaūpoko – Invasion and colonisation, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/1309/lake-papaitonga (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Darren Reid, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 February 2015.

Comments

guy
20 July 2011

Patricia Burns, in her book Te Rauparaha, (p. 98--99) says, this was not the reason for Maupoko attacking T.R.--instead it was based on a decision made at a tribal hui on Kapiti is. to stop him taking land.....