Wairau Bar (Te Pokohiwi)
A gravel spit at the mouth of the Wairau River on New Zealand's South Island, where DNA and radiocarbon dating identify the earliest known Polynesian settlement in the country - founders with direct genetic ties to the Society and Marquesas Islands, whose short-lived community hunted moa so intensively the giant birds were driven extinct within a couple of centuries.
Dated events and their evidence
- 1288 CE mainstream
earliest secure dates for Polynesian settlement at Wairau Bar source - 1300 CE mainstream
settlement at its peak before the community disperses source
Where
41.5167° S, 174.0833° E
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wairau_Bar
- https://www.noted.co.nz/currently/currently-history/why-the-wairau-bar-is-so-important
Each event carries Aion's own evidence grade (mainstream, disputed or speculative). This page repeats what the globe shows for this place.