the pātaka or storehouse panels were carved in the late 1700s and buried in a swamp north of Waitara in the early 1800s as Te Atiawa hid their most precious taonga from Waikato raiders. Taranaki ...

Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred ...

Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred ...

Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Maori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred land ...

On New Zealand’s North Island, Mount Taranaki is surrounded by a circular ... Lake Baikal is 640 kilometers (395 miles) long and up to 1,700 meters (1 mile) deep. According to Unesco, it was ...