TAKANINI STRAIT (AUCKLAND) Traditional Cache
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TAKANINI STRAIT (AUCKLAND)
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TAKANINI STRAIT - Ihaka's Broken Heart
With its car yards, petrol stations, and fast food outlets, Takanini Strait is one of the less outwardly scenic sections of the Great South Road. But the Strait, which connects Manurewa with Papakura, bears the name of one of the most fascinating figures in the history of South Auckland. Ihaka Takanini was a rangatira of the Waiohua iwi, which is connected by whakapapa and politics to the peoples of the Waikato. During the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Takanini struggled to balance his support for the anti-colonial Waikato Kingdom with the presence of increasing numbers of Pakeha in the South Auckland area. Again and again, Takanini acted as peacemaker between Pakeha and Maori, and between pro-British and anti-British Maori. He worked for the colonial government as a land assessor, and managed two Maori hostels in Auckland. In 1863, though, Takanini’s balancing act failed. A few days after the invasion of the Waikato, a group of British troops entered Kirikiri, a village he had founded south of Papakura in the foothills of the Hunua Ranges. The British demanded that Takanini and his people swear loyalty to the Queen or else leave for the Waikato Kingdom. After Takanini refused to swear an oath of loyalty he was branded an enemy of the Crown. Takanini was imprisoned without trial with his extended family at Otahuhu Military Camp, where his father and two of his children died, and then on Rakino Island in the Hauraki Gulf, where he died in 1864 of what one observer described as ‘a broken heart’. This geocache is part of the Great South Road Geocache Experiment that was initiated at the Papakura Art Gallery Exhibition 'A Sense of Place', sponsored by Auckland City Council. NEXT CACHE IN THE SERIES IS CONIFER GROVE - CACHE GC54H7Y
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