"Land of Voyagers" is a koha, a gift, to be shared with all the rangatahi of Aotearoa, New Zealand.
We built this site as we followed the Tuia 250 Voyage from Tahiti to Aotearoa and we invite you to join us on our voyage of discovery.
This site celebrates the incredible story of our Polynesian ancestors, our tupuna. A story that has remained largely untold in our schools since the arrival of Captain Cook, 250 years ago. We begin with the story of the greatest migration in the history of mankind.
Kō ngā tahu ā ō tapuwai inanahi, hei tauira mō āpōpō - in the Maori world view it is our past that always lies in front of us - "The footsteps laid down by our ancestors centuries ago, create the paving stones upon which we stand today."
That means, if we are to truly understand how we came to be who we are today, we have to understand the footsteps - all of the footsteps - that brought us here.
We hope that "Land of Voyagers" will help to fill in those footsteps for our rangatahi as they lay their footsteps into the future.
Visit our learning platform maatauranga.co.nz for activities and teachers resources.
Contact us:
Land of Voyagers
Taylormade Media, 8 Dowling St, PO Box 5580, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand
voyage@taylormade.co.nz