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The ocean Pōhutukawa ... 87 The last of the traditional Matariki ... In 2016 Te Wānanga o Aotearoa promoted a new vision of Matariki in a month-long ...
In Māori culture, Matariki is the name of the Pleiades star cluster, ... This page was last edited on 11 May 2014, at 03:02 (UTC).
Hōkūleʻa, A fibreglass hulled replica of a Hawaiian double-hulled canoe sailing off Honolulu, 2009 Hawaiian navigators sailing multi-hulled canoe, c. 1781. Polynesian navigation or Polynesian wayfinding was used for thousands of years to enable long voyages across thousands of kilometres of the open Pacific Ocean.
On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.2-magnitude earthquake shook Southeast Asia, triggering the worst tsunami in recorded history. According to United Nations estimates, more than 220,000 people were killed ...
Mātāmua chairs the Matariki Advisory Group which has provided advice to the Government on the formation of New Zealand's newest public holiday, Matariki, which was first celebrated on Friday 24 June 2022. [15] In October 2022 he was appointed to the newly-created position as chief advisor to the Government on Matariki. [16]
A woman enjoys the Lampuuk beach in Aceh Besar, Indonesia, on Dec. 24, 2024, ahead of the 20-year anniversary of the devastating tsunami that struck the city on December 26, 2004.
Māori cultural history intertwines inextricably with the culture of Polynesia as a whole. The New Zealand archipelago forms the southwestern corner of the Polynesian Triangle, a major part of the Pacific Ocean with three island groups at its corners: the Hawaiian Islands, Rapa Nui (Easter Island), and New Zealand (Aotearoa in te reo Māori). [10]
The day after Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2024 election, several MAGA faithful took to social media to encourage “friends” to relocate to another part of the world.