The naming of Kaikoura
The name of Kaikoura consists of two words: Kai (food) and Koura (crayfish). It has its origin in the story of Tamatea-Pokai-Whenua, the legendary traveller of the Maori. He stopped off at this peninsula to cook a feed of crayfish on his way south to search for three of his wives who had fled. Bent...
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