Pitt-island-history – Rugged Remote Remarkable
... caressed by the eternal misty skies, lies Rangiaotea, far away in the distance.” Pitt Island is undisputedly the ancestral homeland of Moriori on these islands. ... The acclaimed New Zealand historian, the late Michael King, recognised this in ... The invading Maori tribes in 1835 called the Island Rangiauria and this is the ...