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Pre-European Portage Route

New Zealand / Auckland / Manukau /
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This is the over land route used by pre-european Maori to travel between the two harbours. By dragging their waka [canoes] overland they were able to avoid having to travel by sea all the way north to Cape Reinga and then south again. The use of this route over several generations resulted in a physical rut in the ground, the current Portage road follows this rut between the Manukau harbour and the head of the Tamaki River at Otahuhu. There was another portage route to the West between Karaka Bay and Avondale.
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Coordinates:   36°56'11"S   174°50'18"E
This article was last modified 15 years ago