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• Horoirangi and Te Rere a Hihi

  Horoirangi (the Sky Washer) is the highest point towering above two boulder banks -  the southern end of the boulder bank at Rotokura (Cable Bay), and the northern...

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• Wakapuaka - Rotokura

  Wakapuaka is an ancient name;  Kupe bestowed the name on the area because it reminded him of a fishing ground of that name in Hawaiki. *Early Settlers at Rotokura *Rotokura,...

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• Wakapuaka Kāinga sites

  *Wakapuaka Block – Original Native Title *In 1880 when Wi Katene Te Puoho, chief of Ngāti Tama died, the status of the more than 17,500 acres (7,100 ha)...

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• Rescue of the crew of the Delaware 1863

  The best known Māori rescue in the region was the dramatic deliverance of the crew of the Delaware when the ship was driven onto rocks at Wakapuaka on...

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• The Naming of Nelson and its streets

  *Nelson* On 22nd February 1841 the New Zealand Company in London announced that its second settlement in New Zealand (after Wellington) would be named Nelson, and that its establishment would...

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