Moutoa Island is an island of shingle approximately 500 metres (1,600 ft) long, 80 kilometres (50 mi) up the Whanganui River, New Zealand between the towns of Rānana and Hiruharama.
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Surrounded by rapids, it has been the site of many battles, the most famous being on 14 May 1864, between a force of Pai Mārire followers from the upper Whanganui and Ngāti Hau from the lower Whanganui, during the Second Taranaki War. A statue unveiled in 1865 in Moutoa Gardens in Whanganui commemorates the battle.[1]
References
edit- ^ "Moutoa Monument". New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero. Heritage New Zealand. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
External links
edit- Media related to Moutoa Island at Wikimedia Commons
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