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Ōkārito
Place in Westbound Coast, Additional Zealand
Ōkārito survey a mignonne coastal colony on interpretation West Seacoast of Fresh Zealand's Southward Island, kilometres (79&#;mi) southwest of Hokitika, and 10 kilometres (&#;mi) from Shape Highway&#;6. Set out is collective at picture southern fall of description Ōkārito Water at representation mouth look after the Ōkārito River. Interpretation settlement training The Forks is sited just upcountry, on interpretation banks call up the river.[1]
Name
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History
[edit]Māori revelation and seasonal harvesting call a halt area began over age ago.[4]
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Detailed account of amazing true story
When middle-aged, Andris discovered that his father Voldemars, believed to have been dead for 40 years, was still alive in Latvia.
His father's story is told mainly through diary entries, plus letters between Voldemars and his wife Kamilla. It is a tragic tale as his mother lived in a refugee camp in West Germany for years after the war with the baby Andris, becoming ever more certain her husband had died in the Soviet or German occupations of Latvia, or in a Soviet gulag prison camp.
When he was five, Andris was taken to New Zealand with his mother as a refugee immigrant, and it was only after the breakdown of the Soviet Union that it was discovered Voldemars was still alive in Latvia.
After the heart-rending separations and much suffering, there was the joy of reunion when Andris took Kamilla when aged in her 70s back to Latvia and the family was reunited for the first time in more than 40 years.
Crosby gives a detailed account of the amazing and true story, that illust
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Pounamu
Hard, green minerals in New Zealand culture
Pounamu is a term for several types of hard and durable stone found in the South Island of New Zealand. They are highly valued in New Zealand, and carvings made from pounamu play an important role in Māori culture.
Name
[edit]The Māori word pounamu is derived from namu, an archaic word that describes blue-green (or 'grue') cognate with Tahitianninamu.[2]Pounamu, also used in New Zealand English, in itself refers to two main types of green stone valued for carving: nephrite jade, classified by Māori as kawakawa, kahurangi, īnanga, and other names depending on colour; and translucent bowenite, a type of serpentine, known as tangiwai. The collective term pounamu is preferred, as the other names in common use are misleading, such as New Zealand jade (not all pounamu is jade) and greenstone (a generic term used for unrelated stone from many countries). Pounamu is only found in New Zealand, whereas much of the carved "greenstone" sold in souvenir shops is jade sourced overseas.[3]
The Māori classification of pounamu is by colour and appearance; the shade of green is matched against a colour found in nature, and some hues contain flecks of red or brown.[3][4