• Ruatapu was a son of the great chief Uenuku, and a master canoeist in Polynesian tradition who is said to have lived around 30 generations ago. Most Māori...
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    attempt on his life by his half-brother Ruatapu. On the island of Aitutaki, he is also known as a brother of Ruatapu, but is not as famous as him. In an account...
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  • traditions from further north in the Pacific, Chief Uanuku Rakeiora and his son Ruatapu are said to have lived on Ra'iātea Island just over 27 generations ago...
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    in the migration story where Ruatapu attempts to kill his brother Paikea, one Ngāti Porou tradition says that Ruatapu summoned great waves that destroyed...
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    Galatea (Māori: Kuhawaea) is a settlement in the Whakatāne District in the Bay of Plenty region of the North Island of New Zealand. The forested hills...
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    Ruatapu is a small town in the Westland District in the West Coast region of the South Island of New Zealand. The town's name stems from Ruatapu, a figure...
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    Ruatapu Ngatikaura (born 27 May 2000) is a Cook Islands international rugby league footballer who plays as a hooker for the North Sydney Bears in the...
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  • Tregear 1891:61 A. Reedy, Ngā Kōrero a Mohi Ruatapu, tohunga rongonui o Ngāti Porou: The Writings of Mohi Ruatapu (Canterbury University Press: Christchurch)...
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  • family, although platypuses were never comfortable with other animals. Nu'u Ruatapu Tāwhaki Witzel, E.J. Michael (2012). The Origins of the World's Mythologies...
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    possibly the beginnings of a further terrace. Also at Orakei Korako is the Ruatapu Cave, one of only two caves in the world known to exist in a geothermal...
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    According to oral tradition, Manuae was discovered by Ruatapu, who named it Manu-enua ("bird-land"). Ruatapu planted coconuts and released birds there, and later...
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    original on 27 June 2020. Retrieved 27 June 2020. "The Story of Paikea and Ruatapu". Te Ao Hou: The Maori Magazine. Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa - National...
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    Te Aroha, Thames, Kerikeri, Kokoma, Tapanui, Porinui, Tawanui, Ōtāhuhu, Ruatapu, Mosgiel, Whareroa Fifth verse Kāpiti, Ngawaka, Onepu, Reporoa, Tongariro...
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    (1928), 359–66. A. Reedy, Ngā Kōrero a Mohi Ruatapu, tohunga rongonui o Ngāti Porou: The Writings of Mohi Ruatapu (Canterbury University Press: Christchurch)...
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    identify various settlers, including Ru, Te Munakorero, Kai, Ui-tario, and Ruatapu. The first known European contact was with Captain Bligh and the crew of...
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  • Riwaka Rolleston Romahapa Roslyn Bush Ross Rotherham Rotoroa Roxburgh Ruatapu Runanga Saint Arnaud Saint Bathans Seddon Sheffield and Waddington Somerfield...
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    groups may even trace the brothers as great-grandsons of Uenuku's other son Ruatapu as well as with Paikea. Whatever the case, Tahupōtiki was born in Whāngārā...
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    Uke's descents then went on to settle Atiu. Another legend states a son of Ruatapu was murdered on Mauke, and in retaliation he killed many of the islands...
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  • New Zealand Malcolm Campbell 25 Greymouth British John Leonard Hale 45 Ruatapu New Zealand Glen Peter Cruse 35 Cobden New Zealand Allan John Dixon 45...
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    travelled to New Zealand on the back of a whale, but Ruatapu sent a great flood, called Te Tai a Ruatapu, to kill the survivors in New Zealand. Mt. Hikurangi...
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  • like his father, who secured his position through marriages, notably with Ruatapu-wahine, an adoptive daughter of his maternal grandfather. Kahukuranui's...
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    Dillmanstown Jacksons Kaihinu Kokatahi Kumara Kumara Junction Otira Rimu Ross Ruatapu Woodstock Chesterfield Callaghans Stafford Goldsborough/Waimea Humphreys...
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    the second "a". The lake is beside State Highway 6 at the small town of Ruatapu, between Hokitika and Ross. The road to the lake turns off the highway...
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    gives the line of descent as Tama-te-kapua - Haumai-tāwhiti - Tuamatua - Ruatapu - Mawake - Tumamao - Ohomairangi - Puhaorangi and Te Kuraimonoa Stafford...
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    Greymouth. A branch line railway known as the Ross Branch was extended from Ruatapu to Ross on 1 April 1909, serving as the southern terminus of the line owned...
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  • Council. 2012. p. 19. Retrieved 14 June 2016. "The Story of Paikea and Ruatapu". Te Ao Hou: The Māori Magazine. 40: 6. September 1962. Retrieved 21 October...
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    was well underway by August 1902. The first section, from Hokitika to Ruatapu, was opened on 9 November 1906, and the full line to Ross was completed...
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    Moewhare meeting house are affiliated with Moewhare. Painoaiho marae and Ruatapu meeting house are affiliated with Ngāti Koro. Rangitahi marae and Apa Hapai...
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  • together on the development and operation of an alluvial gold claim at Ruatapu on the West Coast. When this project folded after 18 months Downer, Arch...
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