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Statistics New Zealand describes Pataua as a rural settlement. The settlement covers 0.33 km 2 (0.13 sq mi) [1] and had an estimated population of 210 as of June 2024, [2] with a population density of 102 people per km 2. The settlement is part of the larger Pataua statistical area.
[20] In 2018 the Post Settlement Commitment Unit was incorporated into a new Crown agency Te Arawhiti (Office for Māori Crown Relations). [20] [24] The web-portal Te Haeata was created in 2019 as a searchable record by arms of the Crown to find Treaty settlement commitments as recorded in deeds of settlement and government legislation. [25]
Britain was motivated by the desire to forestall the New Zealand Company and other European powers (France established a very small settlement at Akaroa in the South Island later in 1840), to facilitate settlement by British subjects and, possibly, to end the lawlessness of European (predominantly British and American) whalers, sealers and ...
Pā locations include volcanoes, spurs, headlands, ridges, peninsulas and small islands, including artificial islands. Standard features included a community well for long-term supply of water, designated waste areas, an outpost or an elevated stage on a summit on which a pahu would be slung on a frame that when struck would alarm the residents ...
Aotearoa (pronounced [aɔˈtɛaɾɔa] in Māori and / ˌ aʊ t ɛəˈr oʊ. ə / in English; often translated as 'land of the long white cloud') [22] is the current Māori name for New Zealand. It is unknown whether Māori had a name for the whole country before the arrival of Europeans; Aotearoa originally referred to just the North Island. [23]
One group of Māori settled in the Chatham Islands around 1500; they created a separate, pacifist culture and became known as the Moriori. The arrival of Europeans to New Zealand, starting in 1642 with Abel Tasman , brought enormous changes to the Māori, who were introduced to Western food, technology, weapons and culture by European settlers ...
The Māori settlement of New Zealand represents an end-point of a long chain of island-hopping voyages in the South Pacific. No credible evidence exists of pre-Māori settlement of New Zealand ; on the other hand, compelling evidence from archaeology, linguistics, and physical anthropology indicates that the first settlers migrated from ...
A daughter of Rākaihautū, Te Uhi-tataraiakoa, stayed behind in Te Patunui-o-āio, and became the great-grandmother of Toi. [9] Eight generations after Toi there lived Waitaha-nui and after him Waitaha-araki, [14] after whom there came Hāwea-i-te-raki, [e] and finally seven generations later lived Hotumāmoe from Hastings, the founding ancestor of Ngāti Māmoe.