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Site of old Maori settlement (early 19th century) at Crater Bay near Urupa Point, Aorangi Island - Tatua Peak visible in the background on the left: Camera manufacturer: FUJIFILM: Camera model: X-Pro1: Exposure time: 1/680 sec (0.0014705882352941) F-number: f/5.6: ISO speed rating: 400: Date and time of data generation: 14:59, 25 January 2018 ...
Before British colonisation of New Zealand, the Indigenous architecture of Māori was an 'elaborate tradition of timber architecture'. [1] Māori constructed rectangular buildings (whare) with a 'small door, an extension of the roof and walls to form a porch, and an interior with hearths along the centre and sleeping places along the walls' for protection against the cold.
Model of a pā on a headland, showing the stepped nature and the wood palisades. Some 19th-century (gunfighter) pā built specifically for defense against gunpowder weapons sometimes even provided overlapping fields of fire for the defenders. An 1863 meeting between Māori and settlers in a pā whakairo (carved pā) in Hawke's Bay Province.
Bay Point, formerly West Pittsburg and originally Bella Vista is a census-designated place located in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in Contra Costa County, California. Bay Point is just west of Pittsburg, California, and northeast of Concord, California, on the southern shore of Suisun Bay. The population of Bay Point was ...
An employee of Southern Clams Ltd gathers cockles. Blueskin Bay is an estuary in coastal Otago, about 25 km north of Dunedin, New Zealand.The name also unofficially describes the rural district which includes the northern slopes of Mount Cargill, the southern slopes of the Kilmog, and the townships of Doctors Point, Waitati, Evansdale, Warrington, and Seacliff.
Ohinetahi was the site of a heavily fortified Ngāti Māmoe pā.Approximately 300 years ago, it was overtaken by Te Rakiwhakaputa of Ngāi Tahu.After the pā's capture, Manuhiri, son of Te Rakiwhakaputa, resided here, fathering many sons and one daughter after whom the pā is named.
Six other marae are also based at or near Kawhia Harbour: Mōkai Kainga Marae and Ko Te Mōkai meeting house is a meeting place for the Ngāti Maniapoto hapū of Apakura and Hikairo, and the Waikato Tainui hapū of Apakura. Mokoroa Marae and Ngā Roimata meeting house is a meeting place for the Waikato hapū of Ngati Kiriwai.
The Māori tribe of the area is Ngāti Kurī. [3]The bay was given the official name of Piwhane / Spirits Bay in 2015. [1] [4]The bay is considered a sacred place in Māori culture as according to local legend, it is the location where spirits of the dead gather to depart from this world to travel to their ancestral home (or afterlife) from a large old pōhutukawa tree above the bay.