Tahu-nui-a-rangi
1. (personal noun) aurora australis, southern lights - a luminous electrical atmospheric phenomenon usually of streamers of light in the sky above the southern magnetic pole.
Whakamīharo ana te kite i a Tahu-nui-a-rangi. Me te ārai kākāriki e pīwari ana i te rangi pō (PK 2008:811). / Seeing the aurora australis is amazing. It's like a green veil waving in the night sky.
Ngā Kurakura o Hinenuitepō
1. (noun) aurora australis, southern lights - a luminous electrical atmospheric phenomenon usually of streamers of light in the sky above the southern magnetic pole.
Ka rongo tonu atu te kōtatara o ngā manu o te ngahere; te tūī me te korimako, te tīwaiwaka "kūtia ai te mate", kia rere ko Ngā Kurakura o Hinenuitepō e kitea nei i Rakiura, i Te Waipounamu (TWK 33:22). / The chattering of the birds of the forest was heard continually; tūī, bellbirds and the fantail that was squeezed by misfortune, to exhibit the aurora australis that is seen in Stewart Island and the South Island.
See also Tahu-nui-a-rangi
