Arawa (canoe)
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Arawa was one of the great ocean-going, voyaging canoes in Māori traditions that was used in the migrations that settled New Zealand. The Te Arawa confederation of Māori iwi and hapū based around the
Te Aurere, a modern reconstruction of a sea-going waka (canoe).
Pōhutukawa trees in flower
Kennett Watkin's 1912 painting, The Legend of the Voyage to New Zealand, depicts the landfall of migratory canoes, including the Arawa, at Whangaparāoa
Centennial monument, Maketu.
Ngātoro-i-rangi
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In Māori tradition, Ngātoro-i-rangi is the name of a tohunga prominent during the settling of New Zealand by the Māori people, who came from the traditional homeland Hawaiki on the Arawa canoe. He is
Depiction of Ngātoro-i-rangi at Mine Bay, created in the late 1970s by Matahi Whakataka-Brightwell and John Randall.
