The Historic Bay of Islands

Birthplace of Aotearoa New Zealand, and a holiday playground

ONE of my very first blog posts is called Cape Brett: Hiking to the Birthplace of Aotearoa. In it, I talk about how, by tradition, the oceangoing craft by which the Māori first settled Aotearoa New Zealand used to rendezvous at Cape Brett. They did so under a seven-peaked row of hills at the end of the peninsula, a row of hills called Rākaumangamanga.

The Bay of Islands and Cape Brett. Background map data ©2018 Google. The red box and the words “Bay of Islands and Cape Brett” have been added further. North at top.