Qualla: Huriawa Peninsula https://qualla.com/huriawa-peninsula en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/p/z/c/k/huriawa-peninsula-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Huriawa Peninsula https://qualla.com/huriawa-peninsula Huriawa Peninsula: Introduction https://qualla.com/huriawa-peninsula/ Photo credit Dushan Jugum, CC BY-SA 4.0. The spring is what saved them. Hidden somewhere on this rocky headland, Te Punawai a Te Wera kept fresh water flowing to the defenders of Huriawa pa while their enemies camped on the narrow isthmus and waited for thirst to do what force could not. Six months later, the besiegers gave up and went home. The spring still flows, and Huriawa Peninsula still juts defiantly into the Pacific, a steep finger of rock stretching a kilometre east from the mouth of the Waikouaiti River, 35 kilometres north of Dunedin on the Otago coast.

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]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/p/z/c/k/huriawa-peninsula-wp/pzck-huriawa-peninsula-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Huriawa Peninsula: The Turning River https://qualla.com/huriawa-peninsula/ Photo credit Dushan Jugum, CC BY-SA 4.0. The name tells the story of a landscape in motion. Huriawa is a Maori term meaning "turning river," and it refers to an older geography: the Waikouaiti River once emptied into the sea south of the peninsula before shifting its course to the north. That shift left Huriawa flanked ...

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]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/p/z/c/k/huriawa-peninsula-wp/pzck-huriawa-peninsula-the-turning-river.mp3 0:06 2 full Huriawa Peninsula: Te Wera's Stronghold https://qualla.com/huriawa-peninsula/ Photo credit Grutness, CC BY-SA 4.0. In the years before Captain James Cook's arrival in New Zealand in the late eighteenth century, Kai Tahu chief Te Wera established a pa on the peninsula that bore his name. The fortification exploited everything the landscape offered: cliffs too steep to scale, an isthmus too nar...

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]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/p/z/c/k/huriawa-peninsula-wp/pzck-huriawa-peninsula-te-weras-stronghold.mp3 0:06 3 full Huriawa Peninsula: Where the Gospel First Sounded https://qualla.com/huriawa-peninsula/ Photo credit Grutness, CC BY-SA 4.0. Walk across the isthmus today and you pass Karitane cemetery, where a memorial marks a different kind of first. On 17 May 1840, Reverend James Watkin of the Wesleyan mission delivered the first Christian sermon given in Otago. Watkin had arrived at Waikouaiti to establish the fir...

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]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/p/z/c/k/huriawa-peninsula-wp/pzck-huriawa-peninsula-where-the-gospel-first-sounded.mp3 0:06 4 full Huriawa Peninsula: Thirteen Hectares of Deep Time https://qualla.com/huriawa-peninsula/ Photo credit Grutness, CC BY-SA 4.0. Huriawa Historic Reserve covers 13.32 hectares of the peninsula today, managed as a place where ecological and cultural values overlap. The walking track that crosses the headland passes through coastal scrub and tussock, with views north to Waikouaiti Beach and south along the r...

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