Waiharakeke

A lake in Hawaiki. On its banks grew the tree from which was fashioned the two great outrigger canoes Aotea and Matatūa.

References

Sources

  • Grey, Sir George. (1855). Polynesian Mythology. Auckland: Brett, p. 128.
  • Tregear, Edward. (1891). Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary. Wellington: Government Printer, p. 590.