Kōrero: Tapa whenua – naming places
Whārangi 5. Hononga, rauemi nō waho
Ētahi atu tūhononga, pae tukutuku hoki
‘Maori place-names: with special reference to the great lakes and mountains of the South Island’
Nā Hēmi Kāwana (James Cowan) tēnei tuhinga i ngā Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, mō ngā ingoa wāhi Māori i Te Wai Pounamu.
‘Some place names of islands of the society group’
Nā Te Pēhi (Elsdon Best) tēnei kōrero, he mea tā ki te Hautaka o te Rōpū Poronihiana (Journal of the Polynesian Society) i te tau 1917. Ka whakariterite a Te Pēhi i ētahi ingoa wāhi Māori ki ētahi ingoa wāhi o Tahiti.
Ētahi whakaaro puaki, takenga
- Buck, Peter (Te Rangi Hīroa). The coming of the Māori. Te Whanganui-a-Tara: Māori Purposes Fund Board/Whitcombe & Tombs, 1949.
- He korero purakau mo nga taunahanahatanga a nga tupuna: place names of the ancestors, a Maori oral history atlas. Te Whanganui-a-Tara: New Zealand Geographic Board, 1990.
- McKinnon, Malcolm, ētita. Bateman New Zealand historical atlas. Tāmaki-makau-rau: David Bateman, 1997.
- Orbell, Margaret. Hawaiki: a new approach to Maori tradition. Ōtautahi: Canterbury University Press, 1991.
- Reed, A. W. Reed book of Māori mythology. Rev. by Ross Calman. Tāmaki-makau-rau: Reed, 2004.
Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang
Rāwiri Taonui, Tapa whenua – naming places, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/story/2253/sources (accessed 10 June 2026).
He kōrero nā Rāwiri Taonui, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.