In
Māori tradition, ''Aotearoa'' was one of the great
ocean-voyaging canoes that were used in the migrations that settled
New Zealand
New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 smaller islands. It is the List of isla ...
. ''Aotearoa'' was captained by Mokotōrea
or Mokoterea.
[ It landed at Aotea on the Tasman Sea coast of the ]Waikato
The Waikato () is a region of the upper North Island of New Zealand. It covers the Waikato District, Waipā District, Matamata-Piako District, South Waikato District and Hamilton City, as well as Hauraki, Coromandel Peninsula, the nort ...
and was buried there.
See also
*List of Māori waka
This is a list of Māori people, Māori (canoes). The information in this list represents a compilation of different oral traditions from around New Zealand. These accounts give several different uses for the waka: many carried Polynesians, Poly ...
*Māori migration canoes
Māori oral histories recount how their ancestors set out from their homeland in ''waka hourua'', large twin-hulled ocean-going canoes ('' waka''). Some of these traditions name a homeland called Hawaiki.
Among these is the story of Kupe, wh ...
References
Māori waka
Māori mythology
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