For Māori, Cape Reinga is the most spiritually significant place in New Zealand. very old pohutukawa tree marks this special place. There...

Around the world are lots of sites about people finding what they call 'giants'. I'm sure some of them were genuine but is a 7' person...

Motutapu (in the Hauraki Gulf of Auckland) is the low undulating island just behind Rangitoto. Although almost devoid of vegetation by...

Finally, after all the distractions of last year, the unexpected events including one involving a firearm, but mostly the constant wet...

Brief Version: The missionary William Colenso met Maori near Whangarei using this bell about 1836 as a kohua (iron pot) to cook potatoes....

Burial styles differ in Aotearoa. If you go to Australia the Aborigines have one style because they were isolated and of just one stock...

Study of Lapita skeletons on Vanuatu suggest that the older people were of Asian and Polynesian origin rather than Melanesian. This would...

If you have been following us for a while you will remember some interesting artifacts found in the Nelson and Marlborough areas at the...

The United Kingdom, when Aotearoa was first sighted, still allowed slavery. Slavery was a world-wide scourge on mankind. In was Denmark...

First of all, the Polynesian version of what we call tiki are stone statues. Where the notion to carve them as pendants came from, no one...