Tūwhenua

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Tūwhenua
Great Māori migration waka
Settled at Bay of Plenty

In Māori tradition, Tūwhenua was one of the great ocean-going, voyaging canoes (or waka) that was used in the migrations that settled New Zealand. The waka is linked to Bay of Plenty iwi. Some Māori from Ngatiira, of Opotiki, state that Tamatea came from Hawaiki in Tūwhenua, and that he found a tribe of aborigines living at Motu on his arrival [1]

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  1. ^ http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_37/rsnz_37_00_001120.html Art. Best, Elsdon. Article II.—Notes on Ancient Polynesian Migrants, or Voyagers, to New Zealand, and Voyage of the “Aratawhao” Canoe to Hawaiki.
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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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