Waiwera Hot Springs
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Waiwera Hot Springs is a hot springs system located in the small coastal village of Waiwera, just north of Auckland, New Zealand. They were known to the Māori people for centuries before being develop
Waiwera Hot Springs Hotel, early 1900s
Waiwera Hot Springs showing hotel and fields, 1940s
Waiwera Hot Springs in 2006
Māori people
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Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand. The Māori are descended from East Polynesian settlers who arrived in New Zealand in several waves of canoe voyages between roughly 1
Waiwera Hot Springs
…in 2018. The park had been New Zealand's largest water park. The presence of hot springs bubbling up through the sands of Waiwera Beach was known to Māori in pre-European times. The name Waiwera means 'hot water' and the Māori name for the hot springs is Te Rata (The Doctor). The indigenous people came…
New Zealand Maori rowing 8444
Early Archaic period artefacts from the Wairau Bar archaeological site, on display at the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch
Model of a pā (hillfort) built on a headland. Pā proliferated as competition and warfare increased among a growing population.
A drawing from Abel Tasman's travel journal of the first encounter between Europeans and Māori, in 1642