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A 2014 study concluded that no permanent settlement took place in New Zealand prior to the Kaharoa eruption of Mount Tarawera (1314 ±6 CE), but stated that "A brief period of pre-settlement activity that represents discovery of New Zealand by Polynesians and a reconnaissance of the main islands is allowed in this model". [11] mid-14th century
According to oral tradition, the heroic explorer Kupe was the first discoverer of New Zealand or “Aotearoa”. In an early European synthesized interpretation of these accounts, around 750 CE he had discovered New Zealand and later, around 1350, one great fleet of settlers set out from Hawaiki in eastern Polynesia. [6]
Kupe managed to kill Te Kāhui Tipua by creating Lake Grassmere and drowning their villages. [30] He sailed back to Hawaiki and never came back to the land he discovered. However, others came to New Zealand according to his directions. [26]: 451 Ngahue, a contemporary of Kupe, sailed to New Zealand in his canoe, the Tāwhirirangi. [32]
Traditions about Kupe appear among the peoples of the following areas: Northland, Ngāti Kahungunu, Tainui, Whanganui-Taranaki, Rangitāne, and the South Island. A.H. Reed wrote that "When Kupe, the first discoverer of New Zealand,first came in sight of the land,his wife cried,'He ao!
The Wairau Bar, or Te Pokohiwi, [1] is a 19-hectare (47-acre) gravel bar formed where the Wairau River meets the sea in Cloudy Bay, Marlborough, north-eastern South Island, New Zealand. It is an important archaeological site, settled by explorers from East Polynesia who arrived in New Zealand about 1280. It is one of the earliest known human ...
According to Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand: Smith's account went as follows. In 750 CE the Polynesian explorer Kupe discovered an 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 known as the Moriori.
Auckland volcanic field: 260: 853: 1421 Bombay Hills (part of the South Auckland volcanic field) 379--550,000 years ago Kārewa / Gannet Island---500,000 years ago Kaikohe-Bay of Islands volcanic field: 388: 1273
New Zealand's largest lake, Lake Taupō, fills the caldera formed in this eruption. Taupō's most recent major eruption, the Taupō or Hatepe eruption, took place around 232 CE, and is New Zealand's largest eruption since Oruanui. [5] It ejected some 120 km 3 of material (rating 7 on the VEI scale), [6] with around 30 km 3 ejected in just a few ...