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Te Awamutu is a town in the Waikato region in the North Island of New Zealand. It is the council seat of the Waipa District and serves as a service town for the farming communities which surround it. Te Awamutu is located some 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of Hamilton on State Highway 3, one of the two main routes south from Auckland and Hamilton.
The stream passes through Te Awamutu ("the river's end" in Maori) and meets with its main tributary the Mangaohoe Stream, which also starts near the summit of Mt Maungatautari. There are also two other streams in Waikato with the same name; one flows off the Kaimai to enter the Waihou to the east of Matamata , [ 2 ] the other flows under ...
The carving was found buried close to the lake's shore in 1906 when a farmer was draining swampland, and spent some time in the R.W. Bourne collection before being acquired by the Te Awamutu Museum. [citation needed] The work was the centrepiece of the Te Maori exhibition which toured North America and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s. [6]
Paterangi is a settlement in the Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island.It is located 10 km northwest of Te Awamutu.It is close to the site of one of the most strongly fortified pā built during the New Zealand wars of the late 19th century.
Te Awaatu or Te Awa-O-Tu translates as "the channel of Tu". According to Māori oral history, ancestor Tu-Te-Raki-whanoa carved out the fiords and lakes with his giant ko (digging stick), with one foot on Ka-Tu-Waewae-O-Tu (Secretary Island) at the entrance to Doubtful Sound and the other foot on Mauikatau (Resolution Island) at the entrance to Tamatea / Dusky Sound.
Lake Ngaroto is a peat lake in Waipa District of New Zealand.. Located 19 km south of Hamilton and 8 km north-west of Te Awamutu, it has a surface area of 108 ha (270 acres), making it the largest of the Waipa peat lakes.
The huge collection of vintage and luxury cars is one of the museum's attractions. - Mustafa Abumunes/AFP/Getty Images. Siham Haleem, a private tour guide for 15 years, says that Doha now has many ...
Roto-o-Rangi or Rotoorangi is a rural community in the Waipa District and Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island, located south of Cambridge and north-east of Te Awamutu. Parts of northern Roto-o-Rangi have been undergoing urban development since the construction of the State Highway 1 Cambridge Expressway, as part of the expansion of ...