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Spirits Bay
Spirits Bay, official name Piwhane/Spirits Bay,〔() Deed Of Settlement, Ngati Kuri and the Crown. Retrieved 10 February 2014〕 is an isolated bay at the end of the Aupouri Peninsula, near the northern tip of New Zealand's North Island.
The bay is 12 kilometres in width. It is one of two bays (the other being Tom Bowling Bay) in the short length of coast that marks the tip of the North Island. A long walking path, about 8.5 kilometers (5.3 miles) long, runs beside the bay.
== Māori cultural significance ==
The bay is considered a sacred place in Māori culture as according to local legend, it is the location where spirits of the dead gather to depart from this world to travel to their ancestral home (or afterlife) from a large old pōhutukawa tree above the bay.〔(Spirits Bay (Kapowairua) ) Retrieved December 2011〕
The bay has two Māori names, Piwhane and Kapowairua, the latter meaning to "catch the spirit", derived from a Māori language saying that translates into English as: "I can shelter from the wind. But I cannot shelter from the longing for my daughter. I shall venture as far as Hokianga, and beyond. Your task (should I die) shall be to grasp my spirit." The words were spoken by Tōhē, a chief of the Ngāti Kahu people, who is considered one of Muriwhenua’s most important ancestors. Tōhē made his way south, naming more than one hundred places along the western coast, until dying at Whāngaiariki near Maunganui Bluff.〔(1. Ancestors - Muriwhenua tribes ). ''Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand''. Retrieved December 2011〕
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