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Māori land holdings, 1910

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Māori land holdings, 1910

By 1910 there had been substantial loss of Māori land. The remaining land in Māori ownership is shown in yellow. Ngāpuhi held pockets of land in the centre of the Northland peninsula where the soil was often poor and the vegetation scrubby.

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Rāwiri Taonui, Ngāpuhi – Early European contact, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/map/4169/maori-land-holdings-1910 (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Rāwiri Taonui, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 March 2017.