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Iwi and hapū Location Pipitea Marae: Te Upoko o te Ika a Māui: Taranaki Whānui ki te Upoko o te Ika, Te Āti Awa: Thorndon: Rongomaraeroa: Te Hono ki Hawaiki: Institutional (Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa) Wellington Central: Te Tumu Herenga Waka Marae: Te Tumu Herenga Waka: Ngāti Awa (Ngāti Awa ki Poneke) Kelburn
Manawatū-Whanganui, Taranaki, Wellington, Tasman, Nelson, Marlborough: Tokomaru: 2,040 1,758 1,932 3,192 Ngāti Tama ki Te Tau Ihu (part of Ngāti Tama) Tasman, Nelson, Marlborough: Tokomaru: n/a n/a n/a n/a Ngāti Tama ki Te Upoko o Te Ika (part of Ngāti Tama) Wellington: Tokomaru: n/a 207 219 258 Ngāti Tama Kopiri (part of Ngāti Tama ...
Te Aro (formerly also known as Te Aro Flat) is an inner-city suburb of Wellington, New Zealand.It comprises the southern part of the central business district including the majority of the city's entertainment district and covers the mostly flat area of city between The Terrace and Cambridge Terrace at the base of Mount Victoria.
Te Āti Awa or Te Ātiawa is a Māori iwi with traditional bases in the Taranaki and Wellington regions of New Zealand. Approximately 17,000 people registered their affiliation to Te Āti Awa in 2001, with about 10,000 in Taranaki, 2,000 in Wellington and 5,000 of unspecified regional location.
Mākara Cemetery is Wellington's largest cemetery. It was founded after Karori Cemetery edged towards full capacity in 1940, the first burial occurred in 1965. It is currently about one third full. [17] The burial ground Ngā Iwi o Te Motu Urupā is open for Māori and their whānau in Mākara Cemetery.
The iwi is named for the ancestor Māhaki, who was a direct descendant of Toroa, captain of the Mātaatua canoe, [5] of Tamatea Arikinui, captain of the Tākitimu, and Paikea. [6] He probably lived in the late fifteenth century. Māhaki had his pā at Pāwerawera at Waikohu (north of modern Gisborne).
Port Nicholson is the historic name for Wellington Harbour but the 1839 Deed of Purchase, extended in 1844, covered much of the area known as Te Upoko o te Ika. The rohe (tribal area) includes land surrounding the harbour, and extends to the Remutaka Range north of the Hutt Valley , and then south to Turakirae .
Ōtaki is located on New Zealand State Highway 1 and the North Island Main Trunk railway between Wellington and Auckland and marks the northernmost point of the Wellington Region. The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "place of sticking a staff into the ground" for Ōtaki. [4]