Story: Muaūpoko

Kapiti Island

Tūteremoana, a famous chief of Ngāi Tara, lived for a time on Kāpiti Island and gave his name to its highest peak. According to one account, the island was known to the tribes Ngāi Tara and Rangitāne as Te waewae kāpiti o Tara rāua ko Rangitāne (the boundary between Tara and Rangitāne).

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Darren Reid, Muaūpoko – Early history, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/1304/kapiti-island (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Darren Reid, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 February 2015.

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kendall
27 August 2015

thanks that gave me lot of info