Mahurangi Island (Goat Island)
Mahurangi Island, also known as Goat Island, is located to the north-east of Hahei on the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand's North Island. The uninhabited island is 6 hectares in size. ''Mahurangi Island'' forms one corner of the Te Whanganui-A-Hei (Cathedral Cove) Marine Reserve. Nearby are many smaller islands including ''Okorotere'' and ''Te Tio Islands''. See also * Motueka Island (Pigeon Island) * New Zealand outlying islands * List of islands of New Zealand * List of islands * Desert island References External links

Thames-Coromandel District Islands of Waikato Uninhabited islands of New Zealand {{Waikato-geo-stub ...
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Māori Language
Māori (), or ('the Māori language'), also known as ('the language'), is an Eastern Polynesian language spoken by the Māori people, the indigenous population of mainland New Zealand. Closely related to Cook Islands Māori, Tuamotuan, and Tahitian, it gained recognition as one of New Zealand's official languages in 1987. The number of speakers of the language has declined sharply since 1945, but a Māori-language revitalisation effort has slowed the decline. The 2018 New Zealand census reported that about 186,000 people, or 4.0% of the New Zealand population, could hold a conversation in Māori about everyday things. , 55% of Māori adults reported some knowledge of the language; of these, 64% use Māori at home and around 50,000 people can speak the language "very well" or "well". The Māori language did not have an indigenous writing system. Missionaries arriving from about 1814, such as Thomas Kendall, learned to speak Māori, and introduced the Latin alphabet. In 1 ...
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