Pariwhero/Red Rocks

Status

• Official name
• This name decision / determination was published in the New Zealand Gazette on 3 September 2009 and notified in newspapers on 4 and 6 September 2009 - see 3 September 2009 NZGB public notice of decisions.

Description & location

Located along the south coast, west of Wellington, topographic map 260-R27,R28&Pt.Q27-Wellington, GR 543 817. Extent includes rocks on the foreshore and submerged along the coastal margin.

Pariwhero means red rocks. It is popularly known as the place where Kupe's two female relatives (possibly his daughters), thinking he was lost on a voyage to the south, gashed themselves in their grief and their blood stained the rocks.

Report

You can read the Deed of Settlement Between the Crown and Taranaki Whānui ki Te Upoko o Te Ika (OTS website pdf 243KB) which was prepared by the Office of Treaty Settlements. Read the Port Nicholson Block (Taranaki Whānui ki Te Upoko o Te Ika) Claims Settlement Act 2009.

Map

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