Te Awanui/Tauranga Harbour (Place)

SummaryTe Awanui / Tauranga Harbour is a large tidal estuary in Tauranga Moana, protected from the Pacific by Matakana Island and entered at Mauao/Mount Maunganui and Bowentown. For Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi and Ngāti Pūkenga it is taonga: identity, life source, food bowl, mahinga kai, rohe moana, and a place requiring kaitiakitanga and protection of mauri. The broad, shallow, tide-dominated estuarine system, is sheltered from the Pacific by Matakana Island, open to the sea at Mauao/Mount Maunganui and Bowentown, and fed by short catchments draining into branching tidal channels, mudflats, sandbanks and inlets. Since the 1950s the harbour has been physically altered by dredging, reclamation, wharf construction, Sulphur Point development, bridge works and port expansion. These works made Port of Tauranga a major commercial port, but also produced continuing concern over reclamation, dredging, kaimoana, Te Paritaha pipi beds, cultural relationships, ecological health, and the mauri of Te Awanui.

Nautical map of Tauranga Harbour (1880).
Te Ao Mārama - Tauranga City Libraries Map 19-435

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Te Awanui/Tauranga Harbour (Place)