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The Ōnawe Peninsula is a volcanic plug inside Akaroa Harbour, on Banks Peninsula in Canterbury, New Zealand. It is the site of a former pā (a Māori village). It is part of the Banks Peninsula Volcano. The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage explains that the name Ōnawe is made up of "Ō" meaning "place of" and "nawe" meaning "to ...
The attack led to Takapūneke being abandoned. The survivors either went to the pā (a fortified Māori village) on Ōnawe Peninsula or to the nearby Ōnuku. [3] The next user of the land was William Barnard Rhodes, who in 1839 built himself a house which he painted bright red; this gave the locality its European name of Red House Bay. [12]
State Highway 75 passes through the town. The Ōnawe Peninsula separates Duvauchelle bay from Barry's Bay. Duvauchelle is now part of Christchurch City Council jurisdiction since the city's amalgamation with Banks Peninsula District in 2006. From 1910 until 1989, Duvauchelle was the seat of the Akaroa County Council.
A Māori pā – Te Kakaho – once stood in the bay, and the local iwi acted as guides for the European settlers to the area. The easterly head Little Akaloa is called Long Lookup Point. It was once used by whalers to lookout for the whales. Panua, the Māori settlement there, was destroyed by Te Rauparaha after the fall of Ōnawe Pā in 1831.
The Balkans is a region which natural borders do not coincide with the technical definition of a peninsula hence modern geographers reject the idea of a Balkan Peninsula. It would include Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and the European part of Turkey.
In 1830, the Māori settlement at Takapūneke, east of the current town of Akaroa, was the scene of a notorious incident.It followed an earlier incident in 1832 in which Te Rauparaha, fresh from his successful three-month siege of Kaiapoi Pā, took the pā on the Ōnawe Peninsula at the head of Akaroa Harbour.
Akaroa Harbour is part of Banks Peninsula in the Canterbury region of New Zealand. [2] The harbour enters from the southern coast of the peninsula, heading in a predominantly northerly direction. It is one of two major inlets in Banks Peninsula, on the coast of Canterbury, New Zealand; the other is Lyttelton Harbour on the northern coast.
Ōnawe Peninsula: Canterbury, Banks Peninsula Wave erosion Oparara Basin Arches: West Coast Terrestrial erosion, natural arch Ground water erosion along the boundary of the basement granite and overlying limestone has formed caves and archers.