Ngātokimatawhaorua
E tāwharautia ana a Ngātokimatawhaorua, te waka taua tino nui rawa o te ao, i raro i Te Korowai o Maikuku, pātata ki te Ana o Maikuku.
He tūnga tino hira tō te waka i roto i te ahurea Māori, he waiwai hoki mō te haerenga. He ahurei te hanga o tēnā, o tēnā, me ngā whakairo e tohu ana i te tuakiri me te wairua o ia iwi.
He mea hanga i raro i ngā whakapainga o ngā Atua
Ngātokimatawhaorua was built to mark the centenary of the Treaty of Waitangi’s signing in 1940 and was built by members of New Zealand’s northern and Waikato iwi (tribes). The waka is launched every year in February as part of Waitangi Day commemorations.
I tere mai a Kupe, nāna a Aotearoa i toro, ki konei me te hoki atu mā runga i te waka hourua i kīia ko Matawhaorua. I muri i tōna hokinga atu ki Te Moananui-a-Kiwa atu i Aotearoa, i hahaungia anō te waka e tana mokopuna, e Nukutawhiti. Nāna i tāpiri 'ngā toki' ki te ingoa, ka mutu ka tapaina anō ko Ngātokimatawhaorua. I tapaina te waka taua a Ngātokimatawhaorua hei whakamahara ki taua waka o mua.
I whakamahia a Ngātokimatawhaorua i te Rā o Waitangi, i te whakanuinga rautau o 1940, kātahi ka whakakukūngia mō te 34 tau i roto i tētahi tāwharau i te taha o Te Whare Rūnanga i te Papawhenua o Runga. I te tau 1974 i whakahōutia te waka mō te toronga mai a Kuini Irihāpeti II ki Waitangi, ā, i hangaia tōna tāwharau o nāianei, Te Korowai o Maikuku, tata ki te Ana o Maikuku. I tautapaina a Ngātokimatawhaorua he Kaipuke nō Tōna Tapairu Whakahirahira (arā, HMS), me te aha ka noho ā-ariā he wāhanga o te Taua Moana a te Karauna.
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