Mokoia Island is located in Lake Rotorua in New Zealand. It has an area of 1.35 square kilometres. The uninhabited island is a rhyolite lava dome, rising...
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traditional Māori form of taiaha fighting, with Māori elder Mita Mohi on Mokoia Island, which nurtured his abilities as a performer in kapa haka. Curtis later...
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delta) Lee Island (in Lake Te Anau) Mahara Island (in Lake Manapouri) Manutahi Island (in Waikato River) Mary Island (in Lake Hauroko) Mokoia Island (in Lake...
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A recursive island or lake, also known as a nested island or lake, is an island or a lake that lies within a lake or an island. For the purposes of defining...
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ovoids offset from each other, about 22 km (14 mi) in maximum diameter. Mokoia Island, close to the centre of the lake, is a rhyolite dome that later erupted...
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Regular schools are held on Mokoia Island in Lake Rotorua to teach the use of the taiaha. Mita Mohi established the Mokoia taiaha wānanga, which had trained...
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List of volcanoes in New Zealand (redirect from List of volcanoes in North Island)
Ian E.M. Smith, and Simon Nathan. () New Zealand's volcanoes: Kermadec Islands Archived 2010-05-22 at the Wayback Machine. Volcanic Hazards Working Group...
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over time have varied in size or existence due to volcanic action. Mokoia Island, close to the centre of the lake, is a much later rhyolite dome compared...
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Nakano Island in Lake Tōya, Hokkaidō, Japan Mokoia Island in Lake Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand Motutaiko Island in Lake Taupō, North Island, New Zealand...
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Mokoia is a small settlement in south Taranaki, in the western North Island of New Zealand. It is located on State Highway 3, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) to...
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version of that story that Grey obtained directly from the inhabitants of Mokoia Island. Additional manuscript pages, including the legend of Kae and part of...
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strong sense of identity, kinship and belonging. The para whakawai on Mokoia Island in Lake Rotorua trains members of Te Arawa and other interested individuals...
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Matuatonga is a Māori stone sculpture on Mokoia Island, Lake Rotorua, New Zealand, which is a mauri (relic) or whakapoko (guardian statue) and belongs...
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Tainui, landed at Tauranga and headed up the Pongakawa valley to attack Mokoia Island Te Arawa fell back after the loss of 170 men and were defeated by Ngāpuhi...
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the North Island. It is then associated with the story of Hinemoa swimming across the lake to her forbidden lover, Tūtānekai, on Mokoia Island. However...
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-38.08; 176.27 (Lake Rotorua) Mokoia Island 38°05′S 176°18′E / 38.083°S 176.300°E / -38.083; 176.300 (Mokoia Island) Geothermal fields Tikitere/Hell's...
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on Mokoia Island, an island located in Lake Rotorua. In 1925 James Cowan, a Pākehā writer, described a tōtara tree and a tawa tree on Mokoia Island which...
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Te Wera Hauraki (section Mokoia campaign, 1823)
one of the leaders of the Ngāpuhi attack that defeated Te Arawa at Mokoia island in Lake Rotorua. Following the attack, Te Wera and his wife, Te Ao-kapurangi...
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List of lakes of New Zealand (section North Island)
and 99. These six lakes are all situated on the South Island. The deepest lake on the North Island is: Lake Waikaremoana: 256 and 75. The following lakes...
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Reserve, near Whakatāne; 40 birds were translocated to the reserve from Mokoia Island to assist the population there. Their natural habitat is mostly native...
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snare shags there, but the shags flew off with the snares and landed on Mokoia Island, which Īhenga named Te Motutapu-a-Tinirau. Īhenga went on to Kawaha...
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Uenukukōpako's descendants (Te Ure o Uenukukōpako / Ngāti Whakaue) populate Mokoia Island and the north-west side of Lake Rotorua. Te Arawa FM is the radio station...
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Restored grave of Dundonald's mate, Auckland Islands Octagon building fire Remains of sulphur mine, White Island NOTE: The exact number of deaths in some...
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Contestants were split into four teams and given a team hangi challenge on Mokoia Island, where guest chef Rex Morgan joined the judges. The Yellow (Aaron, Jennis...
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Islands Red Mercury Island Stanley Island Moutohora Island (Whale Island) Mokoia Island, Lake Rotorua Kapiti Island Motuihe Island Rangitoto Island Motutapu...
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carvings may be much older. An earlier Tamatekapua meeting house stood on Mokoia Island in Lake Rotorua. Te Kotahitanga (the Māori parliament) met at Ohinemutu...
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Ōwhata (redirect from Mokoia Intermediate)
ero.govt.nz. Education Review Office. "Mokoia Intermediate Official School Website". mokoia.school.nz. "Mokoia Intermediate Ministry of Education School...
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Study of a Maori Woman Three Women in a Waka, Rotoiti Hinemoa's Bath, Mokoia Island, Lake Rotorua (1902) Deserted Whare near Rotorua (c. 1910) "Payton,...
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Stitchbird (category Birds of the North Island)
Lake Rotokare. Attempts to establish populations on Hen Island, Cuvier Island and Mokoia Island and the Waitākere Ranges failed. Reintroduction to these...
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represented by a roll of tapa, and another stone carving buried at Mokoia Island on Lake Rotorua, which is perhaps to be identified with Matuatonga....
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