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Whareakeake was thereafter occupied by a succession of
European households, and informally referred to as "Driver's Beach" or "Coleman's Beach" after two of them. However, on the first surveying map of the district (dated 1863) it was labelled "Murdering Beach". This remained its official designation
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Whareakeake is approximately 630 metres (2,070 ft) long and faces north-northeast. To the west it ends at the small headland called Pilot Point; to the east, at the cliffs of the much larger
Purehurehu Point. Immediately south lie approximately 13 hectares (32 acres) of flat ground, beyond which
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and were killed in the fight to retake it, and that Korako was captured and shot when he attempted to escape; historians caution that Kelly's account of events, made to justify the actions he took, exaggerates the danger he and his men were in. He went on to destroy multiple canoes and set fire to
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neck pendants). At first they were welcomed, but when Tucker went into his house, the locals attacked Kelly, at the instigation of the chief Te
Matahaere. In the ensuing melee three of the settlers were killed, including Tucker himself, who made it back to the boat but lingered in the surf begging
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site, now thoroughly excavated, extending into the sand dunes. The latter site consists of four occupation layers of which even the oldest contains no moa bone. Artefacts from it – including fish-hooks, weapons, and amulets – have been used as type specimens of the
Classic period. An unrivalled
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Scriptures" (p.
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Access to
Whareakeake is by Whareakeake Road (formerly Murdering Beach Road), a steep one-lane gravel drive leading down the side of the Purehurehu Point ridge to the eastern end of the beach.
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the land rises steeply on all sides up towards Stone Hill and Hodson Hill. A stream flows down the valley from Hodson Hill and crosses the beach near its eastern end. Beyond Pilot Point lies
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The motive for the attack at
Whareakeake is unclear. Kelly believed it was a reprisal for previous shootings of Māori by Europeans in the ongoing state of lawless conflict known as the
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Northeasterly swells, although rare, produce barrelling waves or "mal waves" of great interest to surfers. The tides regularly strew the beach with shells and driftwood.
348:. He and his men then proceeded to kill large numbers of Māori, including a local chief named Korako. Their subsequent report claimed that the Māori had boarded the
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in 1811 and inaugurated the trade in these items; this is considered to be poorly evidenced. Local Māori tradition has it that the trouble arose over the
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artefacts was excavated from
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and a few others went to visit
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for nude bathing. New
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his attackers not to hurt him before being "cut limb from limb". All the dead were
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850:"ON the road: Six of the best... Dunedin beaches"
753:. National Library of New Zealand. 21 August 1858
745:"New Zealand: Adventure at Otago forty years ago"
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539:"Beaches Around Dunedin"
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