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Hokorereoro, Rangatira, or South East Island is the third largest island in the Chatham Islands archipelago, and covers an area of 218 hectares (539 acres). It lies 800 kilometres (497 mi) east of New Zealand's South Island off the south-east coast of Pitt Island, 55 kilometres (34 mi) south-east of the main settlement, Waitangi, on Chatham Island.
The ship Rangatira provided a freight service from Timaru to the Chatham Islands from March 2000 to August 2015. [81] The MV Southern Tiare provides a freight service between Napier, Timaru and the Chathams. [78] There is a small section of tar sealed road between Waitangi and Te One, but the majority of the islands' roads are gravel.
A rangatira is a chief, the nominalising suffix -tanga makes the word an abstract noun referring to the quality or attributes of chieftainship. The word is also translated as 'chiefly autonomy', or 'kingdom', referencing the 'chiefly authority' and domain of the chief.
The word rangatira means "chief (male or female), wellborn, noble" and derives from Proto-Central Eastern Polynesian *langatila ("chief of secondary status"). [4] Cognate words are found in Moriori, Tahitian (i.e. the raʻatira in the name Tāvini Huiraʻatira), Cook Islands Māori, Tuamotuan, Marquesan and Hawaiian.
The TEV Rangatira was a roll-on/roll-off vehicle and passenger ferry launched in 1971 for the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand. [1] She was the world's last surviving passenger ship with steam-powered turbo-electric transmission . [ 1 ] (
Rangiteaorere was a Māori rangatira (chief) in the Te Arawa confederation of tribes and ancestor of Ngāti Rangiteaorere. He grew up at Te Teko in the Bay of Plenty and travelled to Lake Rotorua to find his father in adulthood. There he led his father's people in a successful invasion of Mokoia Island, alongside his cousin Uenukukōpako. Later ...
Ngāti Toa, also called Ngāti Toarangatira or Ngāti Toa Rangatira, is a Māori iwi (tribe) based in the southern North Island and the northern South Island of New Zealand. [1] Ngāti Toa remains a small iwi with a population of about 9,000.
Te Kahu-o-te-rangi was born with the name Te Wainohu at Pohonui-o-hine pā on the western bank of the Wairoa river. [2] His father was Puruaute of Ngāti Rakaipaaka and his mother was Te Matakainga-i-te-tihi, [2] the queen (hei tihi) of the Ngāi Tamaterangi hapū of the Wairoa river valley. [3]