This article is about the region. For the Invercargill marae, see Murihiku Marae.
Murihiku is a region of the South Island in New Zealand, as used by the Māori people. Traditionally it was used to describe the portion of the South Island below the Waitaki River, but now is mostly used to describe the province of Southland. The name means 'the tail end (of the land)'[1] (literally muri, 'the end of'; hiku, 'tail').
In 1861, when Southland became a province, the settler population wanted to retain the name "Murihiku", but this wish was ignored by Governor Thomas Gore Browne. This was "much to the inhabitants' indignation and disgust".[2]
^"Murihiku", from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, originally published in 1966.
^"Place Names: Southern New Zealand". Mataura Ensign: 7. 16 August 1912.
Murihiku is a region of the South Island in New Zealand, as used by the Māori people. Traditionally it was used to describe the portion of the South Island...
Southland (Māori: Murihiku, lit. 'the last joint of the tail') is New Zealand's southernmost region. It consists of the southwestern portion of the South...
Zealand's South Island. The syncline folds the Mesozoic greywackes of the Murihiku Terrane. The northern limb of the fold is steep to overturned, while the...
Scotland are in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island in Canada, Otago and Murihiku/Southland in New Zealand, the Falkland Islands, and Northern Ireland in...
"Southern shark lore forty years after Jaws: The positioning of sharks within Murihiku, New Zealand". Australian Folklore: A Yearly Journal of Folklore Studies...
The Southern Institute of Technology (SIT; Māori: Te Whare Wānanga o Murihiku) is a public tertiary education institution (NZ TEI), established in 1971...
missionaries – Wohlers at Ruapuke Island. In 1853, Walter Mantell purchased Murihiku from local Māori iwi, claiming the land for European settlement. Otago...
Kikihia rosea, commonly known as the pink or Murihiku cicada, is a species of insect that is endemic to New Zealand. This species was first described by...
increasing quickly. Rhotic New Zealand English was historically restricted to Murihiku (the "Southland burr") but rhoticity now is widely used in a region stretching...
and travelled down the east coast of the South Island until he reached Murihiku, turned west, and travelled up the west coast to Cape Farewell. From there...
Southland District Council (Māori: Te Rohe Pōtae o Murihiku) is the territorial authority for the Southland District of New Zealand. The council is led...
Machine. Antarctica.gov.au. Retrieved on 16 July 2013. McNab, Robert (1909). Murihiku: A History of the South Island of New Zealand and the Islands Adjacent...
two specimens shown to him by Walter Mantell, who obtained the birds in Murihiku. Eight years earlier, some elderly Māori had told Mantell about the bird...
major religion south of Christchurch. In some parts of Otago but all of Murihiku (also known as Southland in English), there is a distinct accent known...
recruited settlers from Scotland, generating a definite Scottish influence in Murihiku, while the Canterbury Association recruited settlers from the south of...
Marine Reserve (New Zealand Department of Conservation) High Resolution Map Murihiku.com A Map of the Islands Island Information Historical Timeline of the...
range: Miocene, ~100–5 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Type Igneous Overlies Murihiku Terrane, Caples Terrane, Torlesse and Waipapa Composite Terranes Greywacke...
Catlins, an area of rough hill country which geologically forms part of the Murihiku terrane, an accretion which extends inland through the Hokonui Hills in...
Maori New Zealand. Auckland University Press. p. 36. ISBN 9781775587859. Murihiku timeline (Abandoned website). Backup copy at the Wayback Machine. Peat...
Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 20 February 2020. Robert McNab, Murihiku and the Southern Islands, Invercargill, W. Smith, 1907, p.68. Vallance...
2015. Teviotdale D. (1932). "The material culture of the Moa-hunters in Murihiku – 2. Evidence of Zoology". The Journal of the Polynesian Society. 41 (162):...
December 1835) was a notable New Zealand Ngāi Tahu leader. He was born in Murihiku, Southland, New Zealand and active from about 1826. Anderson, Atholl. "Te...
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