Hawaiki
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Hawaiki
Māori
Example Sentences
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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
Another legend relates that in Hawaiki the people were fighting, and a tribe being beaten was forced to leave the island.
From History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890 by Sutherland, Alexander
The Maoris have retained the tradition of the original arrival of their race in a fleet of canoes from a country called Hawaiki, which is by some supposed to be Hawaii in the Sandwich Group.
From Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World by Cook, James
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 Sutherland, Alexander
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