75 relations: Adam Matthew Digital, American Civil War, Ariki, Armstrong Gun, Artificial island, Auckland, Auckland Regional Council, Auckland volcanic field, Basalt, Battle of Hingakaka, Battle of Ohaeawai, British Army, Chert, Chisel, Colonization, Constabulary, Crimean War, Defensive wall, Drill, Engineering New Zealand, Fiji, Fish oil, Hapū, Hōne Heke, Heritage New Zealand, Hillfort, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Howitzer, Ivory, Iwi, Kūpapa, Lake Ngaroto, Lake Taupo, Mana, Marquesas Islands, Maungawhau, Māori people, Mere (weapon), New Zealand Journal of Ecology, New Zealand Wars, Ngāi Tūhoe, North Island, Obsidian, Ochre, One Tree Hill (New Zealand), Otago, Oxide, Palisade, Phormium, Polynesia, ..., Pounamu, Prehistoric storage pits, Puriri, Rangatira, Reed Publishing, Rocket, Ruapekapeka, Russell, New Zealand, Spear, Sweet potato, Taiaha, Taiaroa Head, Te Awamutu, Te Ruki Kawiti, Tikanga Māori, Tohunga, Tonga, Typha orientalis, Volcano, Waikato, Waikato River, Waka (canoe), Water well, Weka, Wharenui. Expand index (25 more) »
Adam Matthew Digital
Adam Matthew Digital is an academic publisher based in the United Kingdom and the United States.
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American Civil War
The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.
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Ariki
An ariki (New Zealand, Cook Islands), ‘ariki (Easter Island), aliki (Tokelau, Tuvalu), ali‘i (Samoa, Hawai‘i), ari'i (Society Islands, Tahiti), aiki or hakaiki (Marquesas Islands), akariki (Gambier Islands) or ‘eiki (Tonga) is or was a member of a hereditary chiefly or noble rank in Polynesia.
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Armstrong Gun
An Armstrong Gun was a uniquely designed type of rifled breech-loading field and heavy gun designed by Sir William Armstrong and manufactured in England beginning in 1855 by the Elswick Ordnance Company and the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich.
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Artificial island
An artificial island or man-made island is an island that has been constructed by people rather than formed by natural means.
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Auckland
Auckland is a city in New Zealand's North Island.
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Auckland Regional Council
The Auckland Regional Council (ARC) was the regional council (one of the former local government authorities) of the Auckland Region.
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Auckland volcanic field
The Auckland volcanic field is an area of monogenetic volcanoes covered by much of the metropolitan area of Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, located in the North Island.
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Basalt
Basalt is a common extrusive igneous (volcanic) rock formed from the rapid cooling of basaltic lava exposed at or very near the surface of a planet or moon.
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Battle of Hingakaka
The Battle of Hingakaka (sometimes Hiringakaka) was fought between two Maori armies, an allied southern North Island army and a Tainui alliance army, near Ohaupo in the Waikato in the late 18th or early 19th centuries, and was reputedly "the largest battle ever fought on New Zealand soil".
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Battle of Ohaeawai
The Battle of Ohaeawai was fought between British forces and local Māori during the Flagstaff War in July 1845 at Ohaeawai in the North Island of New Zealand.
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British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of British Armed Forces.
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Chert
Chert is a fine-grained sedimentary rock composed of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline silica, the mineral form of silicon dioxide (SiO2).
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Chisel
A chisel is a tool with a characteristically shaped cutting edge (such that wood chisels have lent part of their name to a particular grind) of blade on its end, for carving or cutting a hard material such as wood, stone, or metal by hand, struck with a mallet, or mechanical power.
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Colonization
Colonization (or colonisation) is a process by which a central system of power dominates the surrounding land and its components.
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Constabulary
Constabulary may have several definitions.
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Crimean War
The Crimean War (or translation) was a military conflict fought from October 1853 to February 1856 in which the Russian Empire lost to an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, Britain and Sardinia.
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Defensive wall
A defensive wall is a fortification usually used to protect a city, town or other settlement from potential aggressors.
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Drill
A drill is a tool fitted with a cutting tool attachment or driving tool attachment, usually a drill bit or driver bit, used for boring holes in various materials or fastening various materials together.
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Engineering New Zealand
Engineering New Zealand (previously the Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand) is a not-for-profit professional body that promotes the integrity and interests of members, the profession, and the industry.
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Fiji
Fiji (Viti; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी), officially the Republic of Fiji (Matanitu Tugalala o Viti; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी गणराज्य), is an island country in Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island.
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Fish oil
Fish oil is oil derived from the tissues of oily fish.
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Hapū
In Māoridom and New Zealand, a hapū ("subtribe", or "clan") functions as "the basic political unit within Māori society".
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Hōne Heke
Hōne Wiremu Heke Pōkai (1807/1808 – 7 August 1850), born Heke Pōkai and later often referred to as Hōne Heke, was a highly influential Māori rangatira (chief) of the Ngāpuhi iwi (tribe) and a war leader in northern New Zealand; he was affiliated with the Ngati Rahiri, Ngai Tawake, Ngati Tautahi, Te Matarahurahu and Te Uri-o-Hua hapu (subtribes) of Ngāpuhi.
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Heritage New Zealand
Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga, (previously until 2014 named the New Zealand Historic Places Trust) (Pouhere Taonga), is a Crown entity with a membership of around 20,000 people that advocates for the protection of ancestral sites and heritage buildings in New Zealand.
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Hillfort
A hillfort is a type of earthworks used as a fortified refuge or defended settlement, located to exploit a rise in elevation for defensive advantage.
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House of Commons of the United Kingdom
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Howitzer
A howitzer is a type of artillery piece characterized by a relatively short barrel and the use of comparatively small propellant charges to propel projectiles over relatively high trajectories, with a steep angle of descent.
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Ivory
Ivory is a hard, white material from the tusks (traditionally elephants') and teeth of animals, that can be used in art or manufacturing.
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Iwi
Iwi are the largest social units in New Zealand Māori society.
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Kūpapa
Kūpapa (also called Queenites, from Queen Victoria, loyalists and the friendly natives) were Māori who fought on the British side in the New Zealand Wars of the 19th century.
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Lake Ngaroto
Lake Ngaroto is a peat lake in Waipa District of New Zealand.
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Lake Taupo
Lake Taupo is a lake in the North Island of New Zealand.
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Mana
Mana, in Austronesian languages, means "power", "effectiveness", and "prestige".
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Marquesas Islands
The Marquesas Islands (Îles Marquises or Archipel des Marquises or Marquises; Marquesan: Te Henua (K)enana (North Marquesan) and Te FenuaEnata (South Marquesan), both meaning "the land of men") are a group of volcanic islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the southern Pacific Ocean.
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Maungawhau
Maungawhau / Mount Eden is a scoria cone in the Mount Eden suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.
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Māori people
The Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand.
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Mere (weapon)
The mere is a type of short, broad-bladed weapon in the shape of an enlarged tear drop.
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New Zealand Journal of Ecology
The New Zealand Journal of Ecology is a biannual peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing ecological research relevant to New Zealand and the South Pacific.
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New Zealand Wars
The New Zealand Wars were a series of armed conflicts that took place in New Zealand from 1845 to 1872 between the New Zealand government and the Māori.
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Ngāi Tūhoe
Ngāi Tūhoe, often known simply as Tūhoe, is a Māori iwi ("tribe") of New Zealand.
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North Island
The North Island (Māori: Te Ika-a-Māui) is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the slightly larger but much less populous South Island by Cook Strait.
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Obsidian
Obsidian is a naturally occurring volcanic glass formed as an extrusive igneous rock.
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Ochre
Ochre (British English) (from Greek: ὤχρα, from ὠχρός, ōkhrós, pale) or ocher (American English) is a natural clay earth pigment which is a mixture of ferric oxide and varying amounts of clay and sand.
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One Tree Hill (New Zealand)
Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill is a volcanic peak in Auckland, New Zealand.
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Otago
Otago is a region of New Zealand in the south of the South Island administered by the Otago Regional Council.
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Oxide
An oxide is a chemical compound that contains at least one oxygen atom and one other element in its chemical formula.
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Palisade
A palisade—sometimes called a stakewall or a paling—is typically a fence or wall made from wooden stakes or tree trunks and used as a defensive structure or enclosure.
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Phormium
Phormium is a genus of two plant species in the Asphodelaceae family.
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Polynesia
Polynesia (from πολύς polys "many" and νῆσος nēsos "island") is a subregion of Oceania, made up of more than 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean.
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Pounamu
Pounamu refers to several types of hard, durable and highly valued nephrite jade, bowenite, or serpentinite stone found in southern New Zealand.
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Prehistoric storage pits
Storage pits were underground cists used by many people in the past to protect the seeds for the following year's crops and surplus food from being eaten by insects and rodents.
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Puriri
Puriri (Vitex lucens) is an evergreen tree endemic to New Zealand.
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Rangatira
Rangatira are the hereditary Māori leaders of hapū, and were described by ethnologists such as Elsdon Best as chieftains (p. 88).
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Reed Publishing
Reed Publishing (NZ) Ltd, originally A. H. Reed Ltd and publishing under the imprint A. H. and A. W. Reed, is one of New Zealand's oldest publishers.
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Rocket
A rocket (from Italian rocchetto "bobbin") is a missile, spacecraft, aircraft or other vehicle that obtains thrust from a rocket engine.
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Ruapekapeka
Ruapekapeka is a pā southeast of Kawakawa in the Northland Region of New Zealand.
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Russell, New Zealand
Russell, formerly known as Kororāreka, was the first permanent European settlement and sea port in New Zealand.
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Spear
A spear is a pole weapon consisting of a shaft, usually of wood, with a pointed head.
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Sweet potato
The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the bindweed or morning glory family, Convolvulaceae.
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Taiaha
A taiaha is a traditional weapon of the Māori of New Zealand; a close-quarters staff weapon made from either wood or whalebone, and used for short, sharp strikes or stabbing thrusts with efficient footwork on the part of the wielder.
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Taiaroa Head
Taiaroa Head is a headland at the end of the Otago Peninsula in New Zealand, overlooking the mouth of the Otago Harbour.
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Te Awamutu
Te Awamutu is a town in the Waikato in the North Island of New Zealand.
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Te Ruki Kawiti
Te Ruki Kawiti (1770s – 5 May 1854) was a prominent Māori rangatira (chief).
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Tikanga Māori
Tikanga is a Māori concept with a wide range of meanings — culture, custom, ethic, etiquette, fashion, formality, lore, manner, meaning, mechanism, method, protocol, style.
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Tohunga
In the culture of the Māori of New Zealand, a tohunga is an expert practitioner of any skill or art, either religious or otherwise.
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Tonga
Tonga (Tongan: Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga), officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is a Polynesian sovereign state and archipelago comprising 169 islands, of which 36 are inhabited.
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Typha orientalis
Typha orientalis, commonly known as bulrush, bullrush, cumbungi in Australia, or raupō in New Zealand, is a perennial herbaceous plant in the genus Typha.
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Volcano
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
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Waikato
Waikato is a local government region of the upper North Island of New Zealand.
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Waikato River
The Waikato River is the longest river in New Zealand, running for through the North Island.
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Waka (canoe)
Waka are Māori watercraft, usually canoes ranging in size from small, unornamented canoes (waka tīwai) used for fishing and river travel, to large decorated war canoes (waka taua) up to long.
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Water well
A water well is an excavation or structure created in the ground by digging, driving, boring, or drilling to access groundwater in underground aquifers.
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Weka
The weka (also known as Maori hen or woodhen) (Gallirallus australis) is a flightless bird species of the rail family.
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Wharenui
A wharenui (literally "big house") is a communal house of the Māori people of New Zealand, generally situated as the focal point of a marae.
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