Tikanga Maori
Toroa (White-capped mollymawk),
Auckland Islands
Tikanga are the customs and traditions that have been handed down through the passages of time.
The principal iwi (tribe) of Te Waipounamu (the South Island of New Zealand and Rakiura/Stewart Island) is Ngai Tahu.
For the Auckland Islands Ngai Tahu claims manawhenua for the southern islands, including the Subantartic Islands. This interest is based on their oral records which tell of fishing, hunting and other resource gathering expeditions that took place in the seas around the islands.
The Ngai Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998 acknowledges the special association of Ngai Tahu with taonga species found in the Southern Ocean. These include hoiho, (yellow-eyed penguin), titi (petrels), toroa (albatrosses and mollymawks), rimurapa (bull kelp) and marine mammals.