File:Te Puka A Māui.jpg

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From the information next to the anchor: Māori creation stories tell how Māui, a legendary Polynesia voyager, pulled up from the sea floor the anchor stone Te Puka A Māui (Stewart Island / Rakiura) to act as an anchor for the great ancestral canoe Te Waka o Aoraki (South Island of New Zealand).

The stylised anchor chain is secured firmly on land by a shackle but disappears beneath Foveaux Strait / Te Ara a Kewa to remind us of the physical and spiritual connections between Stewart Island / Rakiura and Bluff / Motu Pohue, the traditional taurapa or stern post of Te Waka o Aoraki.

The chain links also symbolise a history of inter-relationships that have given the peoples of Stewart Island / Rakiura a strong sense of heritage and identity.
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Source Te Puka A Māui
Author Kristina D.C. Hoeppner from Wellington, New Zealand
Camera location46° 51′ 47.99″ S, 168° 07′ 20.57″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by 4nitsirk at https://www.flickr.com/photos/26223114@N02/15936532607. It was reviewed on 3 January 2015 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-sa-2.0.

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