The Te Waiohua people, who gave Auckland its original name of Tāmaki Makaurau, settled there about 1100 AD. Moa still roamed scrublands and Rangitoto hadn’t erupted to dominate Auckland Harbour. The area … contains New Zealand’s oldest stone-walled field systems, windbreaks, heat-conservation areas for tropical crops, burial caves, and the foundations of whare.

Ihumātao eviction: Planned Auckland development reignites anger of the land wars