Why Aotearoa New Zealand's early Polynesian settlement should be recognised with World Heritage Site status
- Written by Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato
Te Pokohiwi, or the Wairau Bar, at the top of the South Island: arrival point for some of the first explorers from East Polynesia.GettyImagesAotearoa New Zealand likes to think it punches above its weight internationally, but there is one area where we are conspicuously falling behind — the number of sites recognised by the UNESCO World...





