North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui)
About North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui)
The North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the larger but less populous South Island by Cook Strait. With an area of 113,729 km2 (43,911 sq mi), it is the world's 14th-largest island, constituting 43% of New Zealand's land area. It has a population of 4,067,400, which is 76% of New Zealand's residents, making it the most populous island in Polynesia and the 28th-most-populous island in the world.
On the show · 3 mentions total
The name of North Island in New Zealand is Teika our Maui, which means fish of Maui, because that's from when he caught a fish and turned it into an island.
from No Such Thing As Suckling's Column, 2020-01-10 at 00:37:53 · read transcript
Other times North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui) came up
Wrote in, Ferrari Dawn is a trucker, actually wrote this email while staring at Mount Dune. Wow. Which is the big mountain in the middle of the North Island. From Lord of the Rings. Yeah.
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No Such Thing As Suckling's Column put 3 places on the map.
- North Atlantic · Brazil
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Coordinates: -39.0000, 176.0000