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Māori culture in southern Hawke's Bay - Roadside Stories ManatuTaonga 407 views A hill in southern Hawke's Bay can claim the world's longest place name. It refers to a local Māori ancestor, Tamatea, who played his flute to his loved one there. North of...
Picton and its ships - Roadside Stories ManatuTaonga 54 views With the advent of roll-on, roll-off vehicle ferries across Cook Strait in 1962, Picton became a transport hub. The town is home to the hulk of the globe-trotting ship Edwi...
Iconic Mt Taranaki - Roadside Stories ManatuTaonga 112 views At the centre of Taranaki is the dramatic volcanic cone of Mt Taranaki, named Mt Egmont in 1770 by British explorer James Cook. The mountain's lava flows and volcanic debri...
Rocky horror in Hamilton - Roadside Stories ManatuTaonga 130 views A statue in Hamilton pays tribute to former resident Richard O'Brien, creator of the kitschy, gender-bending 1970s musical The rocky horror show. The statue depicts Riff Ra...
Rangiātea church, Ōtaki - Roadside Stories ManatuTaonga 108 views In 1995 New Zealand was shocked by the arson attack that destroyed Ōtaki's beautiful Rangiātea church. Ornately decorated with Māori kōwhaiwhai patterns and tukutuku panell...
Lake Papaitonga - Roadside Stories ManatuTaonga 109 views Lake Papaitonga's peaceful bush-clad setting belies its bloody past. After the local Muaūpoko tribe attacked a group including Ngāti Toa chief Te Rauparaha, they became a t...
The big cheese of Lichfield - Roadside Stories ManatuTaonga 178 views The southern hemisphere's biggest cheese factory is in the small Waikato town of Lichfield. Owned by the Fonterra dairy co-operative -- New Zealand's largest company, respo...
Dunedin's bards - Roadside Stories ManatuTaonga 122 views Scottish poet Robbie Burns is remembered by a statue in Dunedin -- but the city has also been home to many other bards, including Thomas Bracken, who composed the words to ...
Christchurch under siege - Roadside Stories ManatuTaonga 223 views New Zealand's most English city, Christchurch was hit by devastating earthquakes in September 2010 and February and June 2011. In the February quake 185 people died. Over a...
Pāpāwai, the Māori capital - Roadside Stories ManatuTaonga 173 views In the late 19th century Pāpāwai marae, outside Greytown, was the focus of the Kotahitanga -- the Māori parliament movement, which sought to unify Māori tribes. With 3,000 ...

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