page_title: Ihumātao
hierarchical_section_title: Ihumātao
caption_attribution_description: English: Forest remnant and drystone wall on Otuataua volcano's lava field, Auckland, New Zealand
context_page_description: Ihumātao is a Māori village, situated three kilometres from Auckland International Airport in Mangere, Auckland, New Zealand.
  The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "cold nose" for Ihumātao. Māori first settled in the area as early as the 14th century. During the Invasion of the Waikato in 1863, the local Māori had their land confiscated by the New Zealand Government as punishment for supporting the Kingitanga movement. The land was largely used for farming until late 2016 when Fletcher Building acquired the site as part of a housing development project. Fletcher's housing development project has been opposed by the Māori activist group "Save Our Unique Landscape", which has occupied the site and staged protests since 2016.
  In July 2019, SOUL were evicted from the site and eleven people were subsequently arrested, sparking a much larger occupation of several hundred people at Ihumātao that continues to this day.
context_section_description: Ihumātao is a Māori village, situated three kilometres from Auckland International Airport in Mangere, Auckland (Tāmaki Makaurau), New Zealand.
  The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "cold nose" for Ihumātao. Māori first settled in the area as early as the 14th century. During the Invasion of the Waikato in 1863, the local Māori had their land confiscated by the New Zealand Government as punishment for supporting the Kingitanga movement. The land was largely used for farming until late 2016 when Fletcher Building acquired the site as part of a housing development project. Fletcher's housing development project has been opposed by the Māori activist group "Save Our Unique Landscape" (SOUL), which has occupied the site and staged protests since 2016.
  In July 2019, SOUL were evicted from the site and eleven people were subsequently arrested, sparking a much larger occupation of several hundred people at Ihumātao that continues to this day. The dispute has been compared to the occupation of Bastion Point in the late 1970s in which Māori protested against forced land alienation by pākehā (European settlers), including by activists who took part in that movement and support SOUL's opposition to the housing development. These events have also sparked a series of protests around New Zealand, the scale of which has been compared to the protests against the 1981 Springbok Tour.
  The site is located on the Ihumātao Peninsula, in Mangere, at the base of the volcanic cone of Ōtuataua, part of the Auckland volcanic field. The scoria cone reaches 64 metres (210 ft) (210 ft) above sea level and was the site of a large Māori pā (fortification).
caption: Forest remnant and drystone wall on Otuataua volcano's lava field, Auckland, New Zealand
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