Hawaiki

British

/ ˈhɑːwaɪkiː /

noun

a legendary Pacific island from which the Māoris migrated to New Zealand by canoe

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Etymology

Origin of Hawaiki

Māori

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The other cables, one of which was likely the target in of potential telecommunications server hack in April, are the Southern Cross cable, SEA-US cable, Asia-America Gateway cable, the Japan-U.S. cable and the Hawaiki cable.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 22, 2022

One of the best known is Hawaiki, which the Maori people believe to be not just their geographical origin, but also their spiritual origin—the place they were born from and would die into.

From National Geographic ● Dec. 9, 2017

One tribe declared that long ago in far-off Hawaiki a chief hated another, but was too weak to do him harm.

From History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890 by Alexander Sutherland

The first canoe that came from Hawaiki was named Arawa.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer

Hawaiki, the original home of the Maori; with a sketch of Polynesian History.

From The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by Martha Warren Beckwith

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