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Rongokako
Rongokako was a New Zealand Māori people, Māori ''ariki'' (chieftain) and tohunga (priest) of the Tākitimu tribal confederation and ancestor of the Ngāti Kahungunu ''iwi'', who is famous for his giant leaps. He is said to have lived at the end of the fourteenth century, about eighteen generations before the mid-twentieth century. Several places along the east coast of the North Island are traditionally connected to him. Life Rongokako was the son of Tamatea Arikinui, who captained the Tākitimu canoe from Hawaiki to Aotearoa New Zealand. His mother was Tato, a direct descendant of Toi-te-huatahi, Toi-kai-rākau, who harnessed Tamatea when he landed at Mount Maunganui (mountain), Mauao and thereby forced him to marry her. William Colenso quotes a genealogy naming him as son of Tato and brother of Hikutapuae, Hikitaketake, Rongoiamoa, Taihopi, Taihapoa, Kahutua, Motoro, Te Angi, Kupe, Ngake, Paikea, and Uenuku. Fetching the ''rimurapa'' Rongokako studied at the whare wānanga ...
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Whangara
Whangara ( ) is a small community in the northeast of New Zealand's North Island, located between Gisborne and Tolaga Bay, five kilometres southwest of Gable End Foreland and two kilometres east of State Highway 35. The settlement features prominently in the early history of the Ngāti Porou iwi, as the site where Tamatea, captain of the Tākitimu canoe settled on arriving in New Zealand. Canoe races were held at nearby Pikopiko-i-whiti, with the people watching from a hill called Puke-hapopo. The place name may be cognate with Fa'ara on Taha'a island in French Polynesia. Whangara was the location and setting for Witi Ihimaera's novel ''The Whale Rider'' and its film adaptation. Parks Te Tapuwae o Rongokako Marine Reserve is a marine reserve covering 2,450 hectares of coastline south of Whangara, which is managed by the Department of Conservation. The name means "The footprints of Rongokako," referring to an ancestor of Ngati Kahungunu who is said to have left a footprint ...
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