Waipapa (canoe)

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Waipapa
Great Māori migration waka
Landed at Doubtless Bay
Settled at Northland

In Māori tradition, Waipapa was one of the great ocean-going, voyaging canoes that was used in the migrations that settled Northland of Aotearoa (New Zealand). The captains were Kaiwhetu and Wairere, [1] who landed the waka in Doubtless Bay. [2]

The exact landing site of the Waipapa is contested. [2] Various accounts place the landing point at Rangiaowhia, Taipa, Oruru, [2] or Karikari Peninsula. [1]

The captain asked his crew to take tawapou log rollers off the canoe, which had been carried from Hawaiki, and plant them on the slopes of a nearby hill. From the rollers grew a grove of tawapou trees that today serve as a memorial of the arrival of the canoe.[ citation needed ]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Māori Peoples of New Zealand / Nga iwi o Aotearoa. Auckland: David Bateman. 2006. p. 60. ISBN   978-1-86953-622-0.
  2. 1 2 3 Evans, Jeff (2009). Nga Waka O Nehera: The First Voyaging Canoes. New Zealand: Libro International. p. 188. ISBN   9781877514043.


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