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Added to NRHP. January 17, 1973. Heʻeia Fishpond (Hawaiian: Loko Iʻa O Heʻeia) is an ancient Hawaiian fishpond located at Heʻeia on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. A walled coastal pond (loko iʻa kuapā), it is the only Hawaiian fishpond fully encircled by a wall (kuapā). Constructed sometime between the early 1200s and early 1400s, it was ...
Ancient Hawaiian aquaculture. Alekoko "Menehune" fishpond. Before contact with Europeans, the Hawaiian people practiced aquaculture through development of fish ponds (Hawaiian: loko iʻa), the most advanced fish-husbandry among the original peoples of the Pacific. While other cultures in places like Egypt and China also used the practice ...
80,000 (in 2016) Papamoa Hills Regional Park is a protected area in the Bay of Plenty Region, owned and managed by Bay of Plenty Regional Council. [1] It is located between Papamoa and Te Puke, on Poplar Lane off State Highway 2. [2] It covers 135 hectares of native bush and open farmland. [3] The landscape consists of steep hills, [3] reaching ...
ʻUluakimata I. ʻUluaki-mata, also known as Teleʻa (active c. 1580-1600 CE [1]), was the twenty-ninth Tuʻi Tonga. He was reportedly one of the mightiest of these rulers, although his power was often characterized as spiritual rather than political. Many traditions recount that his reign was marked by great social changes.
Rākei-hikuroa was a rangatira (chieftain) of Ngāti Kahungunu, who may have lived in the fifteenth century.His efforts to establish his son Tūpurupuru as upoko ariki (paramount chief) of Ngāti Kahungunu led to a conflict with his brother-in-law, Kahutapere, who expelled him from the Gisborne region, beginning a long-lasting conflict within Ngāti Kahungunu.
Te Paepae o Aotea (Volkner Rocks) Marine Reserve is a marine reserve covering an area of 1,267 hectares (3,130 acres) in the Bay of Plenty of New Zealand's North Island. It includes an area around Te Paepae o Aotea , 55 kilometres (34 mi) north-northwest of Whakatāne and 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) northwest of Whakaari/White Island .
Līloa. Līloa was a ruler of the island of Hawaii in the late 15th century. [1] He kept his royal compound in Waipi'o Valley. Līloa was the firstborn son of Kiha-nui-lulu-moku, one of the noho aliʻi (ruling elite). He descended from Hāna-laʻa-nui. [2][3] Līloa's mother Waioloa [4] (or Waoilea [5]), his grandmother Neʻula, and his great ...
A wharenui ([ˈɸaɾɛnʉ.i]; literally "large house") is a communal house of the Māori people of New Zealand, generally situated as the focal point of a marae. Wharenui are usually called meeting houses in New Zealand English, or simply called whare (a more generic term simply referring to a house or building). Also called a whare rūnanga ...