According to Māori legend, Aoraki was a young boy who, along with his three brothers, were the sons of Rakinui, the Sky Father.

According to legend, Māori came to New Zealand from the mythical Hawaiki.

In Māori legend, Cook Strait was discovered by Kupe the navigator.

1. 4m long with a 3m wingspan, it became extinct around the 15th century, but probably inspired the Māori legend of Te Hokioi or Te Hakawai.

In Māori mythology Hinepiripiri occurs in some versions of the legend of Tāwhaki as Tāwhaki's wife and the mother of Wahieroa ( Reed 1963: 165 ).

He appears in a legend of the Ngāti Awa, a Māori tribe of the eastern Bay of Plenty in New Zealand's North Island.

In a Māori legend attributed by White to the Ngāti Hau tribe, Mārikoriko ( Twilight ) is the first woman, created by Ārohirohi ( Shimmering heat ) from the heat of the sun and the echoing cliff.

In a story from the Māori tradition of the Whanganui area, Tukoio, a mortal man, came across a Maero or Mohoao, a wild person or monster much feared in Maori legend.

In some versions of the Māori legend of Tāwhaki, Ngā Atua is the sixth of the twelve layers of the heavens ( Craig 1989: 183, White 1887-1891, I: App ).

Ngaro ( vanished ) is mentioned as a delicacy of the dead in a Māori legend from the far north of the North Island of New Zealand.

Carved in likeness of Ngatoroirangi, a navigator who guided the Tuwharetoa and Te Arawa tribes to the Taupo area over a thousand years ago according to Māori legend.

According to Māori legend the Karioi was a jilted Māori Princess who, upon discovering that love was lost, lay down and rests until this day.

In Māori legend, Taranaki is a mountain being that lived peacefully for many centuries in the centre of New Zealand's North Island with three other mountains, Tongariro, Ngauruhoe and Ruapehu.

Southern Māori oral tradition tells of five successively arriving peoples and while the earliest, Kahui Tipua, appear to be fairy folk modern anthropological opinion is that nevertheless they represent historical people who have become encrusted with legend.

One theory of the origin of the hei-tiki suggests a connection with Tiki, the first man in Māori legend.

According to Māori legend Lake Manapouri was created by the tears of two sisters, Moturua and Koronae, who were daughters of an old chief in the region.

The Māori name Waiuku comes from a legend that two prominent brothers, Tamakae and Tamakou, vied for the hand of a beautiful high-ranking Waikato chieftainess.

One of the great love stories of the Māori world is the legend of Hinemoa and Tutanekai, The story remains popular and is retold in songs, films, cultural theater and dance.

The site of Mosgiel figures in Māori legend, but surrounding features of the Taieri Plain and adjacent hills have older mythical associations.

The Māori name for the glacier is Ka Roimata o Hinehukatere (' The tears of Hinehukatere '), arising from a local legend: Hinehukatere loved climbing in the mountains and persuaded her lover, Wawe, to climb with her.

According to Māori legend, a giant fish was hooked and pulled to the surface by Polynesian navigator Maui and the fish turned into land which became the North Island.

Māori legend tells of a love affair that Pūtauaki had with Whakaari / White Island.

There was once a Māori village on the island, and according to the legend, an old Tohunga resided there amongst the other inhabitants.

* June – Titokowaru's War breaks out in the South Taranaki District of New Zealand's North Island between the Ngāti Ruanui Māori tribe and the New Zealand Government.

* March 24 – Titokowaru's War ends with surrender of the last Māori troops at large in the South Taranaki District of New Zealand's North Island.

Tasman anchored at the northern end of the South Island in Golden Bay ( he named it Murderers ' Bay ) in December 1642 and sailed northward to Tonga following a clash with local Māori.

While the North Island was convulsed by the Land Wars, the South Island, with its low Māori population, was generally peaceful.

In Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, the term crayfish or cray generally refers to a saltwater spiny lobster, of the genus Jasus that is indigenous to much of southern Oceania, while the freshwater species are usually called yabby or, from the indigenous Australian and Māori names for the animal respectively, or by other names specific to each species.

It contained the dedication on the front page, " He perehi tenei mo nga iwi Māori, katoa, o Aotearoa, mete Waipounamu ", meaning " This is a publication for the Māori tribes of Aotearoa and the South Island.

The North Island ( Māori: Te Ika-a-Māui ) is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the slightly larger but much less populous South Island by Cook Strait.

According to Māori mythology, the North and South Islands of New Zealand arose through the actions of the demigod Māui.

The South Island ( Māori: Te Wai Pounamu ) is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand, the other being the more populous North Island.

In the early 18th century, Ngāi Tahu a Māori tribe who originated on the east coast of the North Island began migrating to the northern part of the South Island.

While the North Island was convulsed by the Land Wars of the 1860s and 1870s, the South Island, with its low Māori population, was generally peaceful.

The board intends to make South Island the island's official name, along with an alternative Māori name.

The lagoons which form on the MSG coastlines are common on the east coast of the South Island, New Zealand and have long been referred to as ' hapua ' by the Māori.

* An alternative name for Rangi, the Sky Father in the South Island dialect of Māori

Under the Māori seats system, Otago is also part of the large Te Tai Tonga electorate, which covers the entire South Island and surrounding islands.

The South Island he claimed for Britain by right of discovery, by observing that Māori were so sparse in the South Island, that it could be considered uninhabited.

Although the Treaty was considered to be Māori consenting to British sovereignty over the whole country, the actual proclamation of sovereignty was made by Hobson on 21 May 1840 ( the North Island by treaty and the South by discovery – Hobson was unaware his agents were collecting signatures for the Treaty in the South Island at this stage ).

The table below demonstrates this with the words for ' sky ', ' north wind ', ' woman ', ' house ' and ' parent ' in a representative selection of languages: Tongan ; Niuean ; Samoan ; Sikaiana ; Takuu ; Rapanui language ; Tahitian ; Cook Islands Māori ( Rarotongan ); Māori ; North Marquesan ; South Marquesan ; Hawaiian and Mangarevan.

Bent was found by a local Māori chief of the Ngāti Ruanui iwi in South Taranaki and eventually became accepted as a part of the local tribe.

Examples include the conflicts between Anglophone and Francophone Canadians, between Māori and Pākehā New Zealanders and between Anglophone White South Africans and Boers.