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WHERE KUPE LANDED - (Te Ao Hou - No. 4 Autumn 1953)
- Date
- Autumn 1953
- By
- Maori Affairs DepartmentMaori Affairs Department
- Publisher
- Te Ao Hou
- Description
Looking out from the jetty at Opononi, over the Hokianga Harbour, one can see the place where the Northland people believe Kupe landed (the bay showing behind the jetty post). Traditional stories of the visit of Kupe say that the sand dunes of Hokianga Harbour were covered with dense kauri forest, and when Kupe departed a fire was left burning as a...
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- Te Ao Hou - No. 4 (Autumn 1953)
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