Ngātokimatawhaorua

In Māori tradition, Ngātokimatawhaorua (or Matawhaorua) was one of the great ocean-going, voyaging canoes that was used in the migrations that settled New Zealand.

Matawhaorua was the canoe of Kupe, the Polynesian discoverer of the islands now known as New Zealand. On Kupe's return to Hawaiki, it was re-adzed by Kupe and Nukutawhiti and renamed Ngātokimatawhaorua ("ngā toki" translating as "the adzes").

The rangatira of Ngātokimatawhaorua was Nukutawhiti. Although he predated the iwi Ngāpuhi, he is the ancestor of the great Ngāpuhi rangatira, Rāhiri.