Bloody hell Daniel - you MADE that?? Beautiful job!!!
That story I mentioned is supposed to be true, btw. Many of our place names come from incidents or events. I was born in Paraparaumu for example - 'scraps (of food) in the earth oven' (Para - scrap/ morsel, no plural letter in Maori, so written twice means 'more than one', Umu - earth oven). A raiding war party defeated the local tribe of the area, but being based on swampland, found very little to eat.
The North Island is known to some Maori as 'Te ika a Maui' (The fish of Maui), and the South 'Te waka a Maui' (the canoe of Maui). Stewart island was his anchor. Won't go into the story, but Maui was a half-God who 'caught' the North Island after his canoe struck a reef...