Te Ao Māori
❧Puketapu ki Paraparaumu — Whakapapa, Whenua and Mana Whenua✦
❧Puketapu, Whaling and Coastal Exchange✦
❦Te Ātiawa ki Kāpiti iwi history✥
❧Te Ātiawa early migration and named ancestors❖
◆Ngāti Toa and Kāpiti❦
◆Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga — History, Rohe and Legacy❦
◆Ngāti Haumia ki Paekākāriki — Whenua and History❦
❦Te Wai-o-Rongomai and Te Puna-o-Rongomai✦
✥Waikanae naming traditions✥
❖Whale Song, Kāpiti — Blood, Oil and Bone (2025)✦
✦Modern whaling and whale watching❧
❦Earlier Māori occupation✤
❖1839 whaling scale❧
❖Right whales❧
✥Kahe the trader✤
❧Kahe’s swim✦
◆Kahe and Te Tiriti◆
❦Conservation shift✣
✤Wider whaling geography❧
❧The Kapiti Coast: Māori Tribal History and Place Names✦
❧Te Kāpiti Waewae tradition✦
❦Young and Daymond form a Kāpiti whaling partnership◆
✣Evans’s party takes an unusually early whale✤
✤John Dunscombe wrecked off Kāpiti✦
❦Wakefield travels from Kāpiti to Mana by whaleboat◆
✦A visitor describes the three small islands and their whaling crews✣
◆Four Europeans reported drowned off Mana✦
❧A newspaper recounts a confrontation involving Te Rauparaha and whalers✥
✣Kāpiti whaling on credit: Antonio and Fitzherbert in court◆
❦A quarrel over rations reaches the magistrates❦
✣Māori and whales: an enduring relationship✣
❖Paikea and the whale that saved him✤
❖Tinirau, Kae and the whale Tutunui✥
✣Three sperm whales at Paekākāriki, 1996✥
❦Māori involvement in commercial whaling❦
✦Whales, kauri and an exchange of skins❦
✥Tahoramaurea: two shores, overlapping histories✦
◆Early offshore whaling at Kāpiti❦
✣Korohiwa: a drowning, a proposed transfer and Wilson’s crew◆
◆Across the Tasman: Ships, Oil and the Making of Cook Strait Commerce❦
◆Whaleboats, Whānau and Māori Maritime Enterprise❦
✤Elizabeth, Captain Stewart and the 1830 Akaroa Voyage❧
✤Whalers, Whānau and Coastal Homes: From Waiorua to Te Awaiti❧
✤The Oil Road: Sydney, Hobart, Melbourne and the Cook Strait Trade❧