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Takaparawhau / Bastion Point is a coastal piece of land in Ōrākei, Auckland, New Zealand, overlooking the Waitematā Harbour. The area is significant in New Zealand history as the site of protests in the late 1970s by Māori against forced land alienation by Pākehā (European settlers). [1]
Bastion Point. Events In History. 1 July 1988. Bastion Point land returned. The government announced that it had agreed to the Waitangi Tribunal’s recommendation that Takaparawhā (Bastion Point) on the southern shore of Auckland’s Waitematā Harbour be returned to local iwi Ngāti Whātua. Read more... 25 May 1978. Bastion Point protesters evicted.
As a relative newcomer to the Māori world in 1977, I was excited by the Bastion Point occupation, but pretty clueless. I remember going into the Māori Studies Department of Victoria University — it must have been in March that year — to see the secretary, the redoubtable Mere Te Awa.
On the way to Mission bay, you should take a detour to Bastion point. It has a significant historical value to both Maori and Pakeah. The views of Waitemata Harbour from the top are worth the visit.
The Bastion Point occupation became one of the most famous protest actions in New Zealand history. Ten years later the Waitangi Tribunal supported Māori claims to the land, and the government accepted this finding.
May 24, 2022 · Following the death of Joseph Parata Hawke this week, 1News takes a look back at Takaparawhau/ Bastion Point - one of the biggest land occupations in Aotearoa's history, led by the Ngāti Whātua ki Ōrākei kaumātua.
Narrator: Takaparawhā, or Bastion Point, at Ōkahu Bay in Auckland’s Waitematā Harbour, was the site of an occupation in the late 1970s that became one of New Zealand’s most famous protest actions. The land at Bastion Point originally belonged to the Ngāti Whātua iwi, or tribe.
