Tainui was one of the great ocean-going canoes in which Polynesians migrated to New Zealand approximately 800 years ago. It was commanded by the chief Hoturoa, who had decided to leave Hawaiki because
Te Aurere, a modern reconstruction of a sea-going waka (canoe).
Te Haunui, a modern reconstruction of a sea-going waka (canoe).
Tama-te-kapua, leader of Arawa (Ohinemutu, Rotorua, ca. 1880).
Pōhutukawa trees in flower
Bucklands Beach is a suburb and beach 13 kilometres east of Auckland's CBD in New Zealand. Bucklands Beach was originally a rural farm owned by Alfred Buckland until being developed as a holiday desti
Bucklands Beach
Aerial view of Bucklands Beach in 1976
1916 advertisement for the sale of The Tamaki Estate (Buckland's Landing)
Bucklands Beach in the summer of 1961