1. (noun) binding ropes, urban kinship group, domestic migrants, kinship link - a term sometimes used for tribal members in the city who join taura here groups to help to retain their identity and links back to their tribal homelands. These link back to iwi organisations and often taura here representatives have a place on iwi boards. For example, Te Runanga nui o Ngāti Kahungunu ki te Upoko o Te Ika is the Wellington taura here group for Ngāti Kahungunu. There are two taura here groups in Auckland for Ngā Puhi – Te Taura Here ki Manurewa (South Auckland) and Te Taura Here o Ngāpuhi ki Waitākere (North and West Auckland).

1. (location) Auckland Island, Auckland Islands - a group of subantarctic islands of volcanic origin belonging to Aotearoa/New Zealand about 320 kilometres south-south-west of Rakiura/Stewart Island. The largest is called Auckland Island.

1. (location) Red Hill - near Papakura, South Auckland.

1. (personal name) tribe that lived on the Tāmaki isthmus before being conquered by, and intermarrying with, Ngāti Whātua. Some moved to parts of the South Auckland area.

(Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 116-117; Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 108-109;)

1. (noun) mountain astelia, Astelia nervosa - a tussock-like plant related to the lily with silvery, grass-like, drooping leaves and small, cream flowers. Fruit is reddish-orange. Found south of Auckland in subalpine forest.

1. (noun) native dandelion, Taraxacum magellanicum - a perennial rosette herb distinguished by its unbranched tubular stem and sharply toothed, hairless leaves. Yellow flower heads are made up of many narrow petals. Found south of Auckland from montane to subalpine grassland.

1. (noun) native dandelion, Taraxacum magellanicum - a perennial rosette herb distinguished by its unbranched tubular stem and sharply toothed, hairless leaves. Yellow flower heads are made up of many narrow petals. Found south of Auckland from montane to subalpine grassland.

1. (modifier) exhausted by cultivation, infertile, barren (of land).

1. (noun) a tribe that once lived in the Auckland area but was replaced by later groups. They then moved further south to northern Waikato.

(Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 117;)

1. (personal name) ONZ, GCMG, GCVO, CF, QSO (1932-2011 ) Puketapu and Te Ātiawa; educated at Victoria University of Wellington and Oxford University. Bishop of Waiapu, Bishop of Auckland and Archbishop and Primate of Aotearoa/New Zealand (1980-1985). First Māori Governor-General of Aotearoa/New Zealand (1985-1990) and since then he was the Anglican Observer at the United Nations, elections observer in South Africa and Ghana and chair of the Fiji Constitution Review Commission, Commonwealth Secretary General's Special Envoy to Guyana. From 2005 until his death he was the Chancellor of the Auckland University of Technology.