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Ngāi Tahu, or Kāi Tahu, is the principal Māori iwi (tribe) of the South Island.Its takiwā (tribal area) is the largest in New Zealand, and extends from the White Bluffs / Te Parinui o Whiti (southeast of Blenheim), Mount Mahanga and Kahurangi Point in the north to Stewart Island / Rakiura in the south.
Waitaha (Te Waipounamu/South Island) Canterbury, Otago, Southland, West Coast, Marlborough, Tasman: Tākitimu: 645 972 1,041 ... Map of iwi. See also List of hapū ...
The South Island (Māori: Te Waipounamu [tɛ wɐ.i.pɔ.ʉ.nɐ.mʉ], lit. 'the waters of Greenstone', officially South Island or Te Waipounamu or archaically New Munster) is the largest of the three major islands of New Zealand in surface area, the others being the smaller but more populous North Island and sparsely populated Stewart Island.
Ngāti Kahungunu – 82,239 (in 2018) based on the East Coast of the North Island. Ngāi Tahu/ Kāi Tahu – 74,082 [17] (in 2018) based in the South Island. Te Arawa – 60,719 (in 2018) – based in the Bay of Plenty Region; Ngāti Tūwharetoa – 47,930 (in 2018) – based in the central North Island.
Waitaha is an early Māori iwi, which inhabited the South Island of New Zealand. [1] They were largely absorbed via marriage and conquest – first by the Ngāti Māmoe and then by Ngāi Tahu – from the 16th century onward. Today those of Waitaha descent are represented by the Ngāi Tahu iwi. Like Ngāi Tahu today, Waitaha was itself a ...
Ngāti Toa, also called Ngāti Toarangatira or Ngāti Toa Rangatira, is a Māori iwi (tribe) based in the southern North Island and the northern South Island of New Zealand. [1] Ngāti Toa remains a small iwi with a population of about 9,000. The iwi is centred around Porirua, Plimmerton, Kāpiti, Blenheim and Arapaoa Island.
The climate in the South Island is mostly temperate. The mean temperature for the South Island is 8 °C (46 °F). [9] January and February are the warmest months while July is the coldest. Historical maxima and minima are 42.4 °C (108.3 °F) in Rangiora, Canterbury and −21.6 °C (−6.9 °F) in Ophir, Otago. [10]
The iwi once revered a taipō, a many-scaled goblin, with the body of sea serpent and the head of a man [9] Although this is the least plausible name, because taipo is thought to be an 18th century whaler's term for an evil spirit, and in the South Island Maori dialect the word for an evil spirit is atua [11]