Whatuwhiwhi
| Whatuwhiwhi | ||
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| Coordinates | 34 ° 53 ′ S , 173 ° 23 ′ E | |
| Region ISO | NZ-NTL | |
| Country |
 New Zealand
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| region | Northland | |
| District | Far North District | |
| Ward | Te Hiku Ward | |
| Residents | few | |
| height | 28 m | |
| Post Code | 0483 | |
| Telephone code | +64 (0) 9 | |
| Photography of the place | ||
 Rangiawhia Native School around 1906 |
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Whatuwhiwhi is a small settlement in the Far North District of Northland on the North Island of New Zealand .
geography
The settlement is located around 30 km northeast of Kaitaia at the northern end of Tokerau Beach of Doubtless Bay on the Karikari Peninsula and is now part of the Tokerau Beach settlement .
history
French explorer Jean François Marie de Surville and his crew on the Saint-Jean-Baptiste were the first Europeans to enter Doubtless Bay just 8 days after James Cook gave it the European name. The crew anchored on December 17, 1769 off Brodie's Creek , immediately northeast of Whatuwhiwhi . Surville had herbs collected in the coastal area to heal the numerous scurvy sufferers on board.
For most of the time, relations between the indigenous Māori and the French were friendly. Surville made an effort to label the Māori , as he understood them to be respected, he asked for permission to cut down trees and poured on one occasion the chief a sword. The local Māori provided him with fruits and vegetables, and in return he gave them pigs, a rooster and a hen, as well as wheat, rice, peas and clothes. Surville and his officers wrote notes and sketches of their impressions of Māori life and their artifacts, which gives a valuable insight into the pre-colonial life of the communities in northern New Zealand. The chaplain Paul-Antoine Léonard de Villefeix probably also celebrated the first Christian mass in New Zealand at Christmas .
The cheerful mood tipped over the last two days when an incident angered Surville . On December 27, a group of the crew was stranded in a storm near Whatuwhiwhi , where they were treated kindly by the Māori . The same storm tore the ship's three anchors from the bottom, the cables of which had to be cut to prevent the ship from drifting on rocks. The towed yawl of the ship ran aground on rocks and also had to be cut loose. The ship was being driven out of the bay by strong northeast winds.
After the storm, the stranded sailors returned to the ship. On December 31st, the yawl was sighted on the coast of Tokerau Beach , surrounded by Māori . An armed group was dropped off to retrieve the boat. This met a group of Māori armed with spears and the chief Ranginui , who approached Surville with a green leafy branch as a sign of peace . Surville took Ranginui for the alleged "theft" of his boat found burned about 30 houses down, destroyed a filled with nets canoeing and stole another. They brought Ranginui to their ship. There, the crew members who were stranded during the storm identified him as the Māori chief, who had treated them kindly.
De Surville was determined to keep his prisoner in the hope of obtaining information from him about New Zealand's resources, and sailed the same day, as the storm had made Doubtless Bay unsuitable as an anchorage. Ranginui was treated well and regularly fed at the captain's table, but like many others he suffered from scurvy and died at sea on March 24, 1770.
The New Zealand poet Gerry Webb wrote in 1996 about the event in the Doubtless Bay the poem " Surville at Doubtless Bay ".
A plaque commemorating the events in New Zealand was unveiled in Whatuwhiwhi in 1969 . The cut anchors were located in 1974 by marine archaeologist and diver Kelly Tarlton (1937–1985), lifted on December 21 and donated to the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington . One is on display at the Far North Regional Museum today . They are the oldest authentic European objects found in New Zealand.
Education
On January 27, 1902, the Māori school Rangiawhia Native School was opened in Whatuwhiwhi . The headmaster was the Māori Wiremu Taua until 1919 . It was an experiment to run a school with Māori as a teacher. Taua became New Zealand's first Māori school principal.
The school soon gained a good reputation and for the Native Schools were future Māori -Schulleiter appointed. The school received new buildings in 1906 and had around 20 students at that time. The school no longer exists today.
The later founded Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Rangiawhia , a coeducational elementary school for grades 1-8, in which teaching was completely in the Māori language, was closed in December 2016.
tourism
The settlement has three small sandy bays in which it is safe to swim, but which have no suitable place to anchor because of the unprotected location to the southeast.
literature
- Robert McNab : From Tasman To Marsden: A History of Northern New Zealand from 1642 to 1818 . J. Wilkie & Company , Dunedin 1914, Chapter III : De Surville Visits Doubtless Bay, 1769 (English, online [accessed September 6, 2017]).
- William Frederick Parkes : The Visitors' Guide to the Far North: Mangonui County . Ed .: JA Foster . 3. Edition. Kaitaia 1968 (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Topo250 maps . Land Information New Zealand , accessed September 6, 2017 .
- ↑ Parkes : The Visitors' Guide to the Far North: Mangonui County . 1968, p. 23-25 .
- ^ Michael King : The Penguin History of New Zealand . Penguin , Auckland 2003, ISBN 0-14-301867-1 , pp. 109 f . (English).
- ↑ Gerry Webb : Surville at Doubtless Bay, December 1769 . In: trout - a south pacific journal of the arts . R. Sullivan , accessed July 23, 2014 .
- ↑ Anchor . Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa , accessed September 6, 2017 .
- ^ Claudia Orange : Northland Region - Rangiāwhia school, about 1906 . In: Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand . Ministry for Culture & Heritage , May 4, 2015, accessed November 8, 2016 .
- ↑ Robin C. McConnell : Taua, Wiremu Hoani . In: Dictionary of New Zealand Biography - Volume 3 . Ministry for Culture & Heritage , 1996, accessed March 8, 2011 .
- ^ Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Rangiawhia School (1141) Closure Notice . Gazette , accessed September 6, 2017 .
- ↑ Parkes : The Visitors' Guide to the Far North: Mangonui County . 1968, p. 27 .