Tag: Kohekohe

Hone Heke Memorial Park, Kaikohe Hill

Walk 44, 1st Oct 2020

Kaikohe is named after Kohekohe trees, when Ngapuhi survivors at Pakinga Pa subsisted on Kohekohe berries after a raid by a Ngati Whatua war party.

At the back of the park there’s a memorial to Hone Heke Ngapua, a great-grand nephew of Hone Heke, the warrior who chopped down the flagpole at Russell. Ngapua backed the Kotahitanga movement which aimed at Maori separatism.

The lament of Hone Heke Pakaia, the warrior. When he sat disallusioned on Kaikohe Hill mourning his friends killed in the battle of Ruapekapeka, “the Bat’s Nest,” in Jan 1846.

Walk: Northland 20

The Battle of Ruapekapeka

Flagstaff Hill, Russell