New chapter for Northland sailing ship with a colourful history
The Tui has variously been a sugar barge, a restaurant, a shipwreck museum laden with treasure, and the target of a notorious jewel thief and rapist.
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Waitangi
Hawaiian voyagers welcomed back 40 years after historic visit to Waitangi
A voyaging canoe has returned to New Zealand four decades years after reviving one of the world’s oldest seafaring traditions.
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Hawaiian waka to return 40 years after sparking revival of Māori ocean voyaging
Forty years after the rebirth of Māori ocean voyaging, the Hawaiian canoe Hōkūle’a is due back at Waitangi on an epic, 80,000km voyage around the Pacific.
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Top news photos of 2020
A global pandemic, iwi-led Covid checkpoints, Waitangi Day festivities, politics, record-breaking rainfall, floods and fires — 2020 had it all.
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Best photos of 2019
For once picking my favourite photo of the year was easy.
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Best photos of 2018
From a new Prime Minister’s visit to a tearful whale stranding and a mass haka in the rain, these are a few of my favourite news photos of 2018.
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An everlasting link
A traditional carved canoe has created a new bond between New Zealand and the Netherlands, two seafaring nations with a shared history going back almost 400 years.
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