North Island
(Place)

Also known as: Te Ika ā Māui.

A North Island squatter homestead — Tuputupuru, Gladstone, Wairarapa, c. 1895 black and white photograph of dam construction Figure 13.1. Southern North Island rivals for the hinterland in the 1880s Title Page of Dr Solander's Manuscript — Translated, this reads: — The First Fruits of the Flora of New Zealand — Or — Catalogue of Plants Collected in the North and South Islands — of New Zealand from 8th october to 31st March AD 1769 and — 1770 — ‘Eahei no Mauwe’ and ‘T'avai Poenammoo’ are Solander's (and Cook's) way of writing the Maori prases ‘he ahi no Maui’ (a fire of Maui) and ‘Te Wai-Pounamu’ (the water of greenstone). Cook adopted these names for the North and South Islands, though he stated he could not be sure whether they referred in each case to the whole island or to a district of it. Actually the Maoris called the North Island ‘Te Ika a Maui’ (Maui's fish) and the South Island ‘Te Waka a Maui’ (Maui's canoe) Tribal areas and company boundaries, 28 (Maori) Battalion

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