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- The Haowhenua (Māori for 'land swallower') earthquake was a large earthquake that occurred around 1460 AD causing uplift to parts of Wellington, New Zealand...
- 6–8.3 1460 Wellington Region Wellington 8.0 8.0 25 km 41.39°S 174.80°E Haowhenua earthquake 1620 Alpine Fault South Island 7.6–8.3 1717 Alpine Fault South...
- Motu-Kairangi (present day Miramar Peninsula). Then a violent earthquake known as Haowhenua (Māori for 'land swallower') uplifted the land so that the Te-Awa-a-Taia...
- by geologic upheaval as a result of recurring earthquakes, notably the Haowhenua earthquake in the fifteenth century and the 1855 Wairarapa earthquake...
- there was the Te Moana–a–kura pā which contained terraces and middens. Haowhenua pā was built in the middle of the island, where the quarantine station...
- the Treaty of Waitangi. Pāpaka, who married Piki****a and was killed at Haowhenua by Te Āti Awa in 1834 Herea and Tokotoko had a son and a daughter: Karihi...
- built as well as building their own. Around 1460 AD an earthquake named "Haowhenua" (earth swallower) raised the land, eliminating the shallow channel and...
- Wellington Harbour. Māori oral history describes a m****ive earthquake known as Haowhenua ("land swallower" or "land destroyer") which raised the seabed so that...
- features such as Balaena Bay, Hataitai Beach and S****y Bay. Prior to the Haowhenua earthquake in about 1460 AD, Miramar was an island and Evans Bay would...