Wairau may refer to: Wairau (New Zealand electorate), parliamentary electorate in the Marlborough Region of New Zealand Wairau Bar, a gravel bar formed...

The Wairau Affray of 17 June 1843, also called the Wairau Massacre and the Wairau Incident, was the first serious clash of arms between British settlers...

The Wairau River is one of the longest rivers in New Zealand's South Island. It flows for 170 kilometres (110 mi) from the Spenser Mountains (a northern...

Wairau Valley is the valley of the Wairau River in Marlborough, New Zealand and also the name of the main settlement in the upper valley. State Highway...

Wairau Valley is a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. The area is predominantly light industrial/commercial. The Northern Motorway passes to the east, and...

broadly concentrated into three sub-regions. The Wairau Valley is the flood plain and valley floor of the Wairau River, around the town of Blenheim, with deep...

The Wairau Bar, or Te Pokohiwi, is a 19-hectare (47-acre) gravel bar formed where the Wairau River meets the sea in Cloudy Bay, Marlborough, north-eastern...

The Hundertwasser Art Centre with Wairau Māori Art Gallery is an art and cultural centre in Whangārei, New Zealand. It is the conception of artist and...

The Wairau Fault is an active dextral (right lateral) strike-slip fault in the northeastern part of South Island, New Zealand. It forms part of the Marlborough...

conflict began between the colonial government and Māori in 1843 with the Wairau Affray over land and disagreements over sovereignty. These conflicts, mainly...

is the mandated iwi authority for Rangitāne o Manawatū hapū. Rangitāne o Wairau has a rohe over Marlborough, including much of Kahurangi National Park,...

The Wairau Māori Art Gallery is the first public art gallery in New Zealand to focus solely on the promotion and understanding of Māori artists and curators...

New Zealand. It is a tributary of the Wairau River, flowing north for 30 kilometres (19 mi) to meet the Wairau 65 kilometres (40 mi) west of the town...

The Wairau Hydro Scheme is a canal based hydroelectric project proposed by TrustPower on the Wairau River in Marlborough, New Zealand. The $280 million...

Rapaura is a locality northwest of Blenheim, New Zealand. The Wairau River flows past to the north. Spring Creek lies to the east. Rapaura consists of...

The 21 June 1875 Wairau by-election was a by-election held in the Wairau electorate in the Marlborough Province during the 5th New Zealand Parliament...

Education. Retrieved 17 September 2024. Education Counts: Wairau Intermediate "Our History". Wairau Intermediate. Archived from the original on 1 April 2007...

The Wairau by-election 1858 was a by-election held in the Wairau electorate during the 2nd New Zealand Parliament, on 21 May 1858. The by-election was...

a Ngāti Toa chief, nephew of Te Rauparaha. He had a leading part in the Wairau Affray and the Hutt Valley Campaign. A member of the Māori iwi or nation...

The Wairau by-election 1872 was a by-election held in the Wairau electorate during the 5th New Zealand Parliament, on 19 February 1872. The by-election...

across Cook Strait to Wairau and Nelson. An early signatory to the Treaty of Waitangi, Te Rauparaha was later central to the Wairau Affray in the Marlborough...

among the Europeans who died in the Wairau Affray. Patchett died in Wairau, New Zealand. Whyte, Carol (2001). "Wairau Massacre - Sat 17 Jun 1843". Archived...

Steve (2008). "The Wairau Bar". The Prow. McFadgen, Bruce G.; Adds, Peter (18 February 2018). "Tectonic activity and the history of Wairau Bar, New Zealand's...

has four marae: Takapūwāhia and Hongoeka in Porirua City, and Whakatū and Wairau in the north of the South Island. Ngāti Toa's governing body has the name...

Zealand. State Highway 1 runs past the settlement to the west, and the Wairau River flows past to the east. Picton is 22 km to the north, and Blenheim...

Wairau was a parliamentary electorate in the Marlborough Region of New Zealand. It was one of the initial 24 New Zealand electorates and existed from 1853...

subsequently dispatched surveyors to survey the fertile Wairau valley. The Ngāti Toa claimed that the Wairau valley was not included in their land sales but the...

kilometres from Black Rock in the south to Castor Bay in the north. The Wairau Creek reaches the sea at the Hauraki Gulf at the northern end of Milford...

in the northeast of the South Island of New Zealand. It feeds into the Wairau River. A single lane Truss Bridge carries traffic on State Highway 63 over...

have exceeded 2,100. Violence over land ownership broke out first in the Wairau Valley in the South Island in June 1843, but rising tensions in Taranaki...