Te Haumi

Te Haumi
Te Haumi
	Te Haumi
	Coordinates: 35°18′7″S174°5′55″E / 35.30194°S 174.09861°E
Country	New Zealand
Region	Northland Region
District	Far North District

Last updated February 26, 2019

Te Haumi is a settlement south-east of Paihia and north-west of Opua in the Bay of Islands area of Northland Region, New Zealand.^[1]

Paihia is the main tourist town in the Bay of Islands in the far north of the North Island of New Zealand. It is 60 kilometres north of Whangarei, located close to the historic towns of Russell and Kerikeri. Missionary Henry Williams named the mission station Marsden's Vale and eventually the Paihia became the accepted name of the settlement.

Opua is a locality in the Bay of Islands, in the sub-tropical Northland Region of New Zealand. It is notable as the first port for overseas yachts arriving in the country after crossing the Pacific Ocean. In the original 1870s plans for the town, it was named Newport. The town of Paihia is nearby, and the small settlement of Te Haumi is in between.

The Bay of Islands is an area on the east coast of the Far North District of the North Island of New Zealand. It is one of the most popular fishing, sailing and tourist destinations in the country, and has been renowned internationally for its big-game fishing since American author Zane Grey publicised it in the 1930s. It is 60 km (37 mi) north-west of the city of Whangarei. Cape Reinga, at the northern tip of the country, is about 210 km (130 mi) by road further to the north-west.

The Rangatira (Chief) Tohitapu lived at Te Haumi until his death in 1833.^[2] He is remembered in the naming of Tohitapu Road.

Rangatira ([ɾaŋatiɾa]) are the hereditary Māori leaders of hapū, and were described by ethnologists such as Elsdon Best as chieftains (p. 88). Ideally, rangatira were people of great practical wisdom who held authority on behalf of the tribe and maintained boundaries between a tribe's land and that of other tribes. Changes to land ownership laws in the 19th century, particularly the individualisation of land title, undermined the position of rangatira, as did the widespread loss of land under the colonial government.

Tohitapu also known as Tohi or Toi-Tapu was a Rangatira (chief) of the Te Roroa iwi (tribe) of Northland, New Zealand, and a Tohunga and Māori warrior. An account told by a Ngāpuhi informant to British ethnographer John White of the visit of Marion du Fresne to the Bay of Islands in 1772 describes Tohitapu as participating in the massacre when du Fresne and 26 men of his crew were killed and cannibalised.

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References

↑ Roger Smith, GeographX (2005). The Geographic Atlas of New Zealand. Robbie Burton. map 20. ISBN 1-877333-20-4.
↑ Smith, S. Percy – Maori Wars of the Nineteenth Century (Christchurch 1910) page 458. online at NZETC

Coordinates: 35°18′07″S174°05′55″E / 35.3019°S 174.0985°E / -35.3019; 174.0985

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[1] Roger Smith, GeographX (2005). The Geographic Atlas of New Zealand. Robbie Burton. map 20. ISBN 1-877333-20-4.

[smith2-2] Smith, S. Percy – Maori Wars of the Nineteenth Century (Christchurch 1910) page 458. online at NZETC