Waimāpihi Stream
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Waimāpihi Stream is an urban stream in Wellington, New Zealand. The stream was culverted underground in the 1880s.
Waimapihi beneath Z Vivian St 01
Waimapihi beneath Z Vivian St 02
Rangatira
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In Māori culture, rangatira are tribal chiefs, the leaders of a hapū. Ideally, rangatira were people of great practical wisdom who held authority on behalf of the tribe and maintained boundaries betwe
Waimāpihi Stream
…through pipes beneath Aro Valley and Te Aro to its outlet into Wellington Harbour at the Taranaki Street Wharf. It is named after Māpihi, a historic rangatira ('chieftain') who was said to have bathed in its headwaters. The stream begins in the Waimapihi Reserve (formerly Polhill Reserve), a former rubbish…
Īhāia Te Kirikūmara (died 1873), a 19th-century rangatira
A sign explaining the tangata whenua history of The Bricks, Christchurch