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Landmark Oceania religious

Te Hau-ki-Tūranga

1842 CE – still standing

Oldest surviving Māori carved meeting house, built by Rongowhakaata at Manutuke near Gisborne and later preserved at Te Papa museum in Wellington.

Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–1815 CE)
  2. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1880 CE–2026 CE)

Elsewhere in Oceania at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Image credits 7 pictures from Wikimedia Commons