The Kaimanawa wall

The Kaimanawa wall

Some theorists who claim there were pre-Māori civilisations in New Zealand believed this stone wall in the Kaimanawa State Forest provided evidence for their ideas. It was said that the ‘blocks’ indicated that it could have been built by an earlier culture. However, the wall is a natural phenomenon. The blocks are fractures that appeared as the rock cooled, over 330,000 years ago.

• Canoe navigation

• Canoe traditions

• European discovery of New Zealand

• Hawaiki

• Moriori

• Pacific migrations

• The New Zealanders

• When was New Zealand first settled?

• MAORI MYTHS AND TRADITIONS

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