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BASTION POINTS, what happened in bastion point, why did they take the land…
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Occupation. In 1885 the New Zealand Government built a military outpost at Kohimarama, or Bastion Point, because of its commanding strategic position overlooking the Waite Mata Harbor. The outpost was not built on Takaparawha Point, which had earlier been taken by the Government for the same purpose
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The occupation of Bastion Point lasted 506 days. It began on 5 January 1977, and ended on 25 May 1978 (the 507th day), when 222 protesters were evicted and arrested by police.
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Bastion Point is a coastal piece of land in Orakei, Auckland, New Zealand, overlooking the Waitematā Harbour. The area is significant in New Zealand history as the site of protests by Māori against forced land alienation by pākehā in the late 1970s.
It was on ancestral land that Ngāti Whātua hoped to get back. The tribe mounted a 506-day occupation of the site in 1977–78. The protest ended when the government sent in police to clear the protesters and demolish their makeshift homes.
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Occupation. In 1885 the New Zealand Government built a military outpost at Kohimarama, or Bastion Point, because of its commanding strategic position overlooking the Waite Mata Harbor. ... In 1976 the Crown announced that it planned to develop Bastion Point by selling it to the highest bidder for high-income housing.
1 July 1988. The government announced that it had agreed to the Waitangi Tribunal's recommendation that Takaparawha (Bastion Point) on the southern shore of Auckland's Waite Mata Harbor be returned to local iwi Ngai Whenua.
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Police and army personnel removed 222 people from Bastion Point, above Auckland's Waitematā Harbour, ending an occupation that had lasted 506 days. Local iwi (tribe) Ngāti Whātua were protesting against the loss of land in the Ōrākei block, which had once been declared 'absolutely inalienable'.
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