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Puketapu (Otago)

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269:, where it turned into what is now called Danger Reef. A prominent point in the reef is said to be the steersman, Hipo, sitting erect at the stern. After this the crew explored the southern South Island, naming many place. Kahui Tipua are 'ghost or giant people' with mythic or magical attributes, although they are also the real ancestors of people living now. If the explorers didn't get back before dawn they turned into hills and other natural features. One of them was a woman Puketapu who went as far south as 139: 132: 28: 297:(Ngāi Tahu in modern standard Māori) but were preceded by earlier peoples. The Ārai Te Uru tradition reflects this with its reference to the preceding Kahui Tipua. It is tempting to identify the occupants of an archaeological site close to the mouth of the Waihemo / Shag River with the people of Ārai Te Uru but that can only be speculation. 232:
An annual race held in October each year is run from Palmerston railway station to the summit of Puketapu and back, which is called "Kelly's canter", dedicated to Albert Kelly who ran up Puketapu as a constable in the Palmerston police force every day during World War II to look out for enemy ships.
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The story is seen as an allegorical explanation of the fact that kumara won't grow south of Banks Peninsula. Arai Te Uru is an ancestral canoe of the
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There are several versions of the traditional story of the area but they all tell of the arrival of Rākaihautū from the ancestral homeland
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to go to Hawaiki and bring back this new and valuable food. However, on its return the vessel became waterlogged off the
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mouth, spilled food baskets on Moeraki and Katiki beaches and was wrecked at
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who met the Kahui Tipua people who were already here. He showed them
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dawn broke and she was turned into the hill overlooking Palmerston.
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Elevation
Prominence
Coordinates
45°29′26″S 170°43′52″E / 45.49056°S 170.73111°E / -45.49056; 170.73111
Etymology
Māori
Puketapu is located in New Zealand
Region
Otago
District
Waitaki District
Otago
South Island
Palmerston
Māori
cairn
John McKenzie
Joseph Ward
Hawaiki
kumara
waka
Ārai Te Uru
Waitaki River
Shag Point / Matakaea
Owaka
The Catlins
Waihemo Valley
Kāti Māmoe
iwi

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