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View of a pre-European pa on the Patea River, Taranaki. Access ways to the central platform(s) are defended by double ditches.
View of Pukerangiora pa showing the pre-European or early nineteenth-century enclosures.
This photo shows a double sap (trench dug by the British towards the Maori lines).
Patea River Mouth viewed looking southeast. Marae and Patea redoubt on the left side above the river.

Manawapou River mouth looking northeast. There are many collapsed rua on the level ground above the seacliff. Thacker’s redoubt is at top centre.

Manawapou River mouth looking west. Inman’s redoubt is near the centre. The depressions at the head of the slope below the redoubt are hut sites.

Thacker’s redoubt. The circular ditch and bank nearby is probably the base of haystack (the ditch and bank kept sheep out).

Pa near a rail bridge about 6 km southeast of Hawera

Ohangai pa near Hawera. The pa has many collapsed ruas and the two wavy oval structures are thought to be tracks where horses pulled the arm of a whim which drove a flour mill.

Pa, Te Ruaki five kilometres east of Hawera. The site is probably pre-European in origin and was last occupied during the early 1830s when a raiding party from Waikato besieged and took it.

Another view of Te Ruaki. The outer enclosure to the left of the deeply entrenched main pa is thought to be of late construction possibly 1830s.

A pa northeast of Hawera.

Another pa with multiple transverse ditches and banks northeast of Hawera.
Two ring-ditch pa on rolling hill country west of Hawera near the airport.
Waimate (the island of cliff on the left) and Orangi-Tuapeka (the peninsula on the right), on the coastal reach of the Kapuni River, south of Manaia. In 1834 Waimate was the scene of the first bombardment of a pa by a British warship (HMS Alligator) after the wreck of the Harriet and the holding captive of some passengers. Also on the mainland south of the steep gully edge, a number of small dimples can be detected. These are collapsed rua (storage pits).

South Taranaki landscape
90 Kaupkonui River mouth
92 Manaia Redoubt and blockhouses

South Taranaki Pa

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South Taranaki Pa

South Taranaki Pa
South Taranaki Pa
South Taranaki Pa
South Taranaki Pa
Gunfighter pa, Oika and another pa, Whennuakura River, South Taranaki.
Parininihi, Mt Taranaki or Mt Egmont in distance
Pukerangiora viewed from the east
Pa at Tongaporutu
Kawau
Te Puia, Mokau River

	View of a pre-European pa on the Patea River, Taranaki. Access ways to the central platform(s) are defended by double ditches.
	View of Pukerangiora pa showing the pre-European or early nineteenth-century enclosures.
	This photo shows a double sap (trench dug by the British towards the Maori lines).
	Patea River Mouth viewed looking southeast. Marae and Patea redoubt on the left side above the river.
	Manawapou River mouth looking northeast. There are many collapsed rua on the level ground above the seacliff. Thacker’s redoubt is at top centre.
	Manawapou River mouth looking west. Inman’s redoubt is near the centre. The depressions at the head of the slope below the redoubt are hut sites.
	Thacker’s redoubt. The circular ditch and bank nearby is probably the base of haystack (the ditch and bank kept sheep out).
	Pa near a rail bridge about 6 km southeast of Hawera
	Ohangai pa near Hawera. The pa has many collapsed ruas and the two wavy oval structures are thought to be tracks where horses pulled the arm of a whim which drove a flour mill.
	Pa, Te Ruaki five kilometres east of Hawera. The site is probably pre-European in origin and was last occupied during the early 1830s when a raiding party from Waikato besieged and took it.
	Another view of Te Ruaki. The outer enclosure to the left of the deeply entrenched main pa is thought to be of late construction possibly 1830s.
	A pa northeast of Hawera.
	Another pa with multiple transverse ditches and banks northeast of Hawera.
	Two ring-ditch pa on rolling hill country west of Hawera near the airport.
	Waimate (the island of cliff on the left) and Orangi-Tuapeka (the peninsula on the right), on the coastal reach of the Kapuni River, south of Manaia. In 1834 Waimate was the scene of the first bombardment of a pa by a British warship (HMS Alligator) after the wreck of the Harriet and the holding captive of some passengers. Also on the mainland south of the steep gully edge, a number of small dimples can be detected. These are collapsed rua (storage pits).
	South Taranaki landscape
	90 Kaupkonui River mouth
	92 Manaia Redoubt and blockhouses
	South Taranaki Pa
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	South Taranaki Pa
	South Taranaki Pa
	South Taranaki Pa
	South Taranaki Pa
	South Taranaki Pa
	Gunfighter pa, Oika and another pa, Whennuakura River, South Taranaki.
	Parininihi, Mt Taranaki or Mt Egmont in distance
	Pukerangiora viewed from the east
	Pa at Tongaporutu
	Kawau
	Te Puia, Mokau River