Hokianga
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The Hokianga is an area surrounding the Hokianga Harbour, also known as the Hokianga River, a long estuarine drowned valley on the west coast in the north of the North Island of New Zealand.
Image of the Hokianga generated by NASA's World Wind program
Motukiore Island – where Kupe placed the Kiore on his arrival
Mouth of the Hokianga Harbour, with the Tasman Sea to the left and Hokianga Harbour to the right
Hokianga Harbour from Rawene
Kupe
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Kupe was a Polynesian explorer who, according to Māori history, was the first person to discover New Zealand. He is generally held to have been born to a father from Rarotonga and a mother from Raʻiāt
Hokianga
…flooded the valley turning it into a tidal saltwater harbour with abundant sheltered deep water anchorages. This was the harbour that the explorer Kupe left from, and in 1822 it was home to the first European timber entrepreneurs. southern right whales possibly frequented the bay historically, prior…
Detail of Kupe and his wife Kūrāmarotini from the statue on the Wellington waterfront
Stephenson Percy Smith, 1905
House carving showing Kupe (holding a paddle), with two sea creatures at his feet