- and Ngāti Ira.
These iwi
descended from the sons of
Whātonga,
Taraika and Tautoki-ihu-nui-a-
Whātonga, who
migrated through the
lower North Island with some...
- history.
According to tradition, the
first Māori to
discover the
gorge was
Whātonga, an
explorer from the Kurahaupō canoe, who
found the
gorge in
about the...
- all the
Muriwhenua tribes can
claim descent from him.[citation needed]
Whatonga was the
ancestor of Rangitāne, Ngāi Tara and Muaūpoko.[citation needed]...
-
creating an
estimated 205 jobs. Te Kura
Kaupapa Māori o Tapere-Nui-A-
Whatonga is a Year 1–8 co-educational Māori
immersion school. In 2019, it was a...
- one of two
divisions (aside from Muaūpoko) of the
expedition team led by
Whātonga, a
chief from the Māhia
Peninsula and
father of Tara-Ika a Nohu of Te Whanganui-a-Tara...
-
settlement of
Wellington is said to have been led by Tara, the son of
Whatonga, a
chief from the Māhia Peninsula, who told his son to
travel south, to...
-
landed at Whakatāne
about 1150 CE in
search of his
grandson Whatonga.
Failing to find
Whatonga, he
settled in the
locality and
built a pa on the highest...
-
Heretaunga Plains are
named after a
carved wharenui (meeting house) at
Whatonga, and Māori
migrating south have
taken the name with them and
given it to...
-
uninhabited New Zealand. Then in 1000–1100 CE, the
Polynesian explorers Toi and
Whātonga visited New Zealand, and
found it
inhabited by a primitive,
nomadic people...
- Tara". It is
believed to
refer to Tara, a son of the
Polynesian explorer Whātonga, who was sent down from the Māhia
Peninsula by his
father to
explore southern...
