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The history of traditional Māori scientific advancements is taught at a tertiary level at Victoria University of Wellington [37] and Canterbury University. [ 38 ] Under colonisation Māori people, and women in particular, were treated as subjects rather than as creators of scientific knowledge, a treatment which continues to affect the ...
Tauranga (Māori pronunciation: [ˈtaʉɾaŋa], Māori language for “resting place,” or “safe anchorage") [4] [5] [6] is a coastal city in the Bay of Plenty region and the fifth-most populous city of New Zealand, with an urban population of 162,800 (June 2024) [3], or roughly 3% of the national population.
Māori oral history describes the arrival of ancestors in a number of large ocean-going waka, from Hawaiki. Hawaiki is the spiritual homeland of many eastern Polynesian societies and is widely considered to be mythical.
Mount Maunganui is located atop a sand bar that connects Mauao to the mainland, a geographical formation known as a tombolo.Because of this formation, the residents of Mount Maunganui have both a harbour beach (Pilot Bay) and an ocean beach with great surf, within a short distance.
The Bay of Plenty (Māori: Te Moana-a-Toitehuatahi) is a large bight along the northern coast of New Zealand's North Island.It stretches 260 kilometres (160 mi) from the Coromandel Peninsula in the west to Cape Runaway in the east.
In the ancient times of the Māori people, there lived a nameless hill. He sat alone in a discarded inland area and was slave to Otanewainuku, the most prestigious mountain of Tauranga Moana (greater Tauranga area). Nearby there lived a captivating hill whose name was Puwhenua; she was adorned with the beauty of Tanemahuta (God of the Forest ...
The area around Tauranga Harbour was home to large Māori settlements during the precolonial era, while European presence began in the early 1830s as traders began settling its shores. It was the site of the British Tauranga campaign against the Māori in 1864, which resulted in the confiscation of Ngāi Te Rangi land and the establishment of a ...
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]