Aotea (canoe)

Aotea (canoe)

Infobox waka
waka_name =Aotea
commander =Turi
priest =
departed =
landed =Aotea Harbour
iwi =Ngāti Ruanui
settled =Taranaki
In Māori tradition, Aotea is one of the canoes by which Māori migrated to New Zealand; it is particularly associated with the tribes of Taranaki and Whanganui, including Ngāti Ruanui and other tribal groups. Aotea was a double canoe built by Toto from half of a great tree from Hawaiki, the other half being used for the canoe Matahourua. Toto gave Aotea to his daughter Rongorongo, who was married to Turi. In strife with the chief Uenuku, Turi killed the chief's son and thereafter had to flee for New Zealand with 33 passengers. During the voyage, they stopped at Rangitahua [Rangitahua has been identified by some as Raoul Island in the Kermadec Islands, but Tregear is probably right when he says 'this island cannot now be identified' (Tregear 1891:57) since it is implausible to believe that the Māori could have had any knowledge of the Kermadecs prior to European contact.] and encountered some of the crew from the Kurahaupō canoe (Craig 1989:24). The Aotea canoe arrived at Aotea Harbour on the west coast of the North Island, and its people eventually settled in the Taranaki region.

References

*R.D. Craig, "Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology" (Greenwood Press: New York, 1989).

ee also

*List of Māori waka


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