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Kahotea, a pre-European pa, southern Hawkes Bay.
A pre-European pa with many storage pits. Southern Hawkes Bay. The ditches are double except at the head of the steep slope facing camera.
Two redoubts of European origin, near Wairoa, Hawkes Bay. At right, the redoubt has opposed caponiers or "flanking angles" designed to allow the defenders to fire into the ditches.
Moumoukai, a nineteenth-century refuge pa on a limestone plateau, near Mahia Peninsula, Hawkes Bay.
At bottom right is Maungakahia, a pre-European pa on Mahia Peninsula, occuped by Kahungunu, ancestor of the iwi (tribe) Ngati Kahungunu.
A pre-European pa on Table Cape, Mahia Peninsula. The pa was also occupied when James Cook in the Endeavour cruised past in 1769.