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    Māhia Peninsula (Māori: Te Māhia) is located on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, in the Hawke's Bay region, between the towns of Wairoa and...
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    known as Mahia Launch Complex or Spaceport) is a commercial spaceport located close to Ahuriri Point at the southern tip of Māhia Peninsula, on the east...
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    firing tests. The first test flight took place on 25 May 2017 from Māhia Peninsula on New Zealand's North Island. After reaching an altitude of about...
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  • Kōwhairoa Peninsula Māhia Peninsula Mount Maunganui Motuoapa Peninsula Ngāmotu Northland Peninsula Okahukura Peninsula Omara Spit Orokawa Peninsula Papakanui...
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  • New Zealand. The vessel landed on the Māhia Peninsula (Te Māhia) and the crew dispersed: Ruawharo stayed at Te Māhia, a man named Puhiariki went to Muriwhenua...
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  • New Zealand Mahia Beach, a township on Māhia Peninsula Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, also known as Mahia Spaceport, on Māhia Peninsula Mahia (New Zealand...
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    from Nukutaurua on the Māhia Peninsula to Heretaunga, the region known today as Hawke's Bay. Accompanying Rākei-hikuroa from Māhia to Heretaunga was a son...
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    Electron launch vehicle from Rocket Lab's Launch Complex 1 on the Māhia Peninsula in New Zealand. After being delivered to low Earth orbit, the Explorer...
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    the latitude of Cook Strait to between 50–80 km (31–50 mi) up to the Māhia Peninsula. There are various mappings of its northern limits as the Ruatōria...
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    New Zealand, surrounded by the Hawke's Bay region. It stretches from Māhia Peninsula in the northeast to Cape Kidnappers / Te Kauwae-a-Māui in the southwest...
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    covers the northern half of the Hawke's Bay coast, extending from Māhia Peninsula to Lake Waikaremoana, and south to the mouth of the Waikare River....
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    Gymnothorax, found in southern Australia and between North Cape and the Māhia Peninsula on the North Island of New Zealand. Wikimedia Commons has media related...
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    bay that extends for 100 kilometres from northeast to southwest from Māhia Peninsula to Cape Kidnappers. The Hawke's Bay Region includes the hilly coastal...
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    Barnet Burns (category People from Māhia Peninsula)
    proceeding through Cook Strait to the east coast where Burns was landed at Māhia Peninsula. The Darling continued on to Poverty Bay, where John Williams Harris...
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    shore of Hawke Bay at the mouth of the Wairoa River and to the west of Māhia Peninsula. It is 118 kilometres (73 mi) northeast of Napier, and 92 kilometres...
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    Ngāti Rongomaiwahine (category Māhia Peninsula)
    Rongomaiwahine is a Māori iwi (tribe) traditionally centred in the Māhia Peninsula on the North Island of New Zealand. In the 2006 census, 4,254 people...
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  • Rongomaiwahine (category People from Māhia Peninsula)
    on the Māhia Peninsula, probably in the late fifteenth century. Rongomaiwahine was the daughter of Rapanui and grew up at Te Awapata on Māhia. Her ancestry...
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  • husband Tama-taku-tai. Afterwards, he settled at Maunga-a-kāhia on Māhia Peninsula. In his old age, he negotiated a peace when Maunga-a-kāhia was attacked...
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    involving more than one individual, the largest on 8 April 1943 on the Māhia Peninsula with 300 stranded, and 31 March 1978 in Manukau Harbour with 253 stranded...
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    of the Northland Peninsula, down the Coromandel Peninsula and through beyond Tarawera to northern Hawke Bay at the Māhia Peninsula. The total volume...
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  • Maungawhio Lagoon (category Māhia Peninsula)
    a lagoon on the Māhia Peninsula in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. It is located at the southern end of the isthmus connecting the peninsula with the rest of...
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    petrified wife of culture hero Haunui-a-Nanaia, who pursued her from Māhia Peninsula, naming places on the way including Manawatū, Ōhau and Turakina. The...
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    Waikato and Upper Thames, and from thence in small numbers southwards to Māhia Peninsula (39°10′S) on the east coast and Cape Egmont (39°27′S) on the west (rare...
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  • Toiroa Ikariki (Ikarihi), a matakite (visionary) of Nukutaurua on Māhia Peninsula, prophesied the birth of Te Kooti (as well as the coming of white people...
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    Kaiuku (category Māhia Peninsula)
    "eat mud") was a siege fought, probably in 1828, at Ōkūrārenga on Māhia Peninsula, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, as part of the Musket Wars. A coalition...
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    Spaceport. The rocket is launched from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on Māhia Peninsula, New Zealand. The launch pad's remote and sparsely populated location...
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    said to have been led by Tara, the son of Whatonga, a chief from the Māhia Peninsula, who told his son to travel south, to find more fertile lands to settle...
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  • Te Wera Hauraki (category People from Māhia Peninsula)
    Arawa. After the conclusion of peace, he continued east and settled at Māhia Peninsula in Hawke's Bay, where he allied with Te Whareumu of Ngāti Rakaipaaka...
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    son of the Polynesian explorer Whātonga, who was sent down from the Māhia Peninsula by his father to explore southern lands for their people to settle...
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    Napier. On a clear day, the view stretches as far as Mount Ruapehu and Māhia Peninsula. Beneath Te Mata Peak rests the Craggy Range vineyard and the Tukituki...
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