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Puketutu Island

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wastewater treatment plant (covering 600ha on the landward sides, and served around 600,000 people in the 1990s) could be used to reshape the older form of the island. While the process could take up to 35 years, the final goal was envisaged as reestablishing the Māori customary owners and
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Te Motu a Hiaroa Charitable Trust plans to reestablish a whare wānanga and has a partnership with Auckland Council to rehabilitate the island and create a type of cultural park accessible to the people of Auckland.
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Te Motu a Hiaroa is linked in Māori traditions to Mataaoho, the deity responsible for volcanic activity, who created the wider Auckland volcanic field. The creation of these volcanoes is the result of Te Riri o
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was a river valley. Puketutu was a hilly feature which rose from the surrounding area. Sea levels began to rise 7,000 years ago, eventually separating Puketutu from the mainland.
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nearby, along with the construction of the Mangere wastewater oxidation ponds which bordered the island. The island's highest point, 65m high Te Taumata a
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and the establishment of tuahu (altars). Its lava flows and rich friable soils were gardened for kumura and other cultivates, similar to the
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providing open space for Aucklanders. Watercare then bought a long-term lease of the island and transferred the island's title ownership to
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Te Motu a Hiaroa means "the island of Hiaroa" in reference to an ancestor who arrived on the island after journeying on the
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waka. Puketutu refers to one of the several maunga (mountains) and puke (hills) on the island. The New Zealand
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Puketutu Island (then called 'Weekes' Island') in the 1910s, before it lost most of its cones to quarrying.
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name. The island is joined to the mainland via a causeway known as Te Ara Tāhuna.
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and later a European-style house, fences, and teaching him how to fish for the
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Doctor Henry Weekes settled on Puketutu Island in 1846, inspired by the novel
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Puketutu Island's Pinnacle Hill, with a waka or canoe in the foreground.
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when sea levels were over 100 metres lower than present day levels, the
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Shifting Grounds: Deep Histories of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
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helped Weekes to settle on the island; building him a
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of the island occurred in the mid 19th century during
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National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
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Te Motu a Hiaroa (Puketutu Island) Charitable Trust
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Index

Puketutu

Māngere Mountain
Elevation
Coordinates
36°57′55″S 174°44′50″E / 36.965186°S 174.747248°E / -36.965186; 174.747248
North Island
arc
belt
Auckland volcanic field
Te Motu a Hiaroa Island is located in New Zealand
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Manukau Harbour
Auckland volcanic field
Māori
Tainui
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
tutu shrub
Last Glacial Maximum
Manukau Harbour
Mataaoho

Otuataua Stonefields
Ihumātao
taniwha
tohunga
rangatira
tikanga
iwi
hapū

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