Maori Knowledge of the Ocean S Currents

emondsallan , hello to all . I wonder if some of you ever questioned, why most of the early maori landings in New Zealand from Hawaiki , always landed on the West coast of NZ & not the East coast . I certainly did . When doing my research on this I found their was documents in The Turkish National Archives in Instanbul, relating to many sea voyages made by many peoples of our earlier world . They seem to have specialised in ocean currents & who used them ( Besides that on NZ I recommend to you peruse their documentation on the chinese fleets of around 1247 )Not all of the following was from their . In making a study of the ocean currents ,along with the ancestry , I found out how important the knowledge became in the settlement of our world . Their are many stories on the likes of " Maui "& " Kupe " Many maori elders can tell you the way they navigated with stars. the birds , the feel by hand of the ocean flows , and the movement of the clouds for wind direction . For all of this knowledge , they still landed on the west coast. Before 960 AD Their was at least four ( 4 ) discovery voyages & return , carved on those very historical walking sticks handed on, and by chanting & story telling . I believe that " Tino-o-Maruiwi" commander of the " Kahutara " had knowledge past onto him from other great Maori Navigators , who had been to " Aoteoroa " & returned to their homeland . In 925 AD the 3 canoes of this fleet under " Maruiwi " made land fall at Taranaki . Was this by good luck . I don't think so . Then why Taranaki. I firmly believe , he knew of the wind & currents that headed south down the coast Eastern Australia far out in the Tasman The interesting thing is, that as this current sweeps South west from the northern Pacific ocean with the wind right down to Tasmania it then does a sweeping direction below 40 '( degrees ) to nearly , 50'D then sweeps north out in the deep ,out from Hokitika , Sth Island heading North. This is not the end of this currents flow . It actually breaks up into three, at sea ,out from Taranaki just over 600 kilometres out . One of the three break up prongs actually keeps going to just outside the Hauraki Gulf I also believe that when " Toi " & his crew of Sixty ( 60 )sailed & landed in Tamaki . Ak NZ in 1150 Ad , they had knowledge of these currents. When the Maori canoe " Mahuhu " left the Kaipara , his crew is believed to have rowed north close to the West coast before rounding North cape . Their they caught the warm current, that flows across the the south pacific from " Ecquador " South America, that travells down our east coast . This how the Bay of Islands, Home of the paramount tribe " Ngapuhi " was started way back in those ancestral days . No matter where we start , or what great maori navigator we take . on the early arrival of our maori canoes & ancestors, they follow the same Maori Navigational Map . Later on some did sail down to the west coast of the South Island . That is another story . regards - edmondsallan