Pukaki was an 18th-century chief of the
Arawa iwi
Iwi () are the largest social units in New Zealand Māori society. In Māori, roughly means or , and is often translated as "tribe". The word is both singular and plural in the Māori language, and is typically pluralised as such in English.
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of
New Zealand
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His portrait appears on the
New Zealand 20 cent coin minted from 1990 to 2008.
The name has been used for several New Zealand items:
*Pukaki, one of the volcanic cones of the
Auckland volcanic field
*
Lake Pukaki, a lake in Canterbury, New Zealand
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Pukaki River, a river in Canterbury
*''
HMNZS Pukaki'', the name used by three ships of the Royal New Zealand Navy
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