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Two Otago graduates have made history by completing their PhD oral defence assessments within their own Māori communities. Terina Raureti, 30, and...

Two Otago graduates have made history by completing their PhD oral defence assessments within their own Māori communities.

A review of literary and oral history suggests Polynesians, and not Europeans, were the first to explore Antarctic waters and possibly even spot the frozen continent itself. European explorers are typically credited for discovering Antarctica 200...

A review of literary and oral history suggests Polynesians, and not Europeans, were the first to explore Antarctic waters and possibly even spot the

After a karakia (prayer) that acknowledges many of the original waka that sailed into Tūranga nui ā Kiwa (Gisborne), we are under way. The crew are local and on our three-hour sunset journey, we hear the stories and history of Gisborne’s tangata whenua, as we sail across the harbour towards the landmark that references the name of the Endeavour’s ship-boy, Young Nick’s Head. BROOK SABIN/Stuff Gisborne’s waka hourua, Tairāwhiti. Before that moniker, the headland was Te Kurī-a-Pāoa, the lost dog of Pāoa, the captain of the Horouta waka. We glide past stacks of logs from East C...