Akuaku
Vanished settlement · New Zealand
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- -37.987, 178.359
Why it was abandoned
❔ Cause unknown
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History
Akuaku, also known as Aku Aku, was a settlement about halfway between Waipiro Bay and Whareponga in the East Coast region of New Zealand's North Island. A traditional landing point for waka taua, the town is most notable now as the former home of Major Ropata Wahawaha NZC, as well as the ancestral home of Te Whānau-a-Rākairoa.