Kurahaupō

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Kurahaupō
Great Māori migration waka
Commander Popoto or Te Moungaroa[1] or Ruatea
Priest Ruatea[2]
Landed at Rangitahua (Kermedecs)[3]
Iwi Ngati Apa, Ngati Awa, Ngati Ruanui, and Ngati Kahungunu
Settled at Auckland Peninsula[4]

In Māori tradition, Kurahaupō is the canoe which brought to New Zealand the ancestors of several iwi including Ngati Apa, Ngati Awa, Ngati Ruanui, all of Taranaki, and Ngati Kahungunu of the lower North Island. Ruatea was the chief.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Takoa.co.nz
  2. ^ Takoa.co.nz
  3. ^ Takoa.co.nz
  4. ^ Takoa.co.nz
  • E.R. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary (Lyon and Blair: Lambton Quay), 1891, 20.

[edit] See also

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List of great Māori migration waka
Aotea • Aotearoa • Arahura • Āraiteuru • Arautauta • Arawa • Hīnakipākau-o-te-rupe • Kahutara • Kāraerae • Kurahaupō • Mahangaatuamatua • Māhuhu-ki-te-rangi (a.k.a. Māhuhu) • Mānuka • Māmari • Mataatua • Matahourua • Moekākara • Motumotuahi • Ngātokimatawhaorua • Nuku-tai-memeha • Nukutere • Ōkoki • Ōtūrereao • Pangatoru • Riukākara • Ruakaramea • Tahatuna • Taikōria • Tainui • Tākitimu (a.k.a. Horouta) • Tauira • Tāwhirirangi • Te Aratauwhāiti • Te Aratāwhao • Te Hoiere • Te Kōhatuwhenua • Te Paepae-ki-Rarotonga • Te Rangimātoru • Te Rangiuamutu (a.k.a. Tairea) • Te Rīrino • Te Wakaringaringa • Te Wakatūwhenua • Tinana (a.k.a. Te Māmaru) • Tokomaru • Tōtara-i-kāria • Tūnui-ā-rangi • Tūwhenua • Uruaokapuarangi (a.k.a. Uruao) • Waipapa
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