Mataatua is in Whakatāne, in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand’s North Island.

Quick Scoop: Where is Mataatua?

  • Mataatua (often “Mataatua: The House That Came Home”) is a Māori wharenui (meeting house) located at 105 Muriwai Drive, Whakatāne 3120, New Zealand.
  • It stands at Te Mānuka Tūtahi Marae, the ancestral marae of Ngāti Awa, close to the Whakatāne waterfront and town centre in the eastern Bay of Plenty.
  • Whakatāne itself is a coastal town on the North Island’s east coast, south‑east of Tauranga and north‑east of Rotorua.

If you were searching in a more historical sense: the name Mātaatua also refers to one of the great Polynesian voyaging canoes whose traditions are linked to the Bay of Plenty and further north to Tākou Bay in the Bay of Islands.

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