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Port Levy (Māori: Koukourarata) is a long, sheltered bay and settlement on Banks Peninsula in Canterbury, New Zealand. The current population is under 100, but in the mid-19th century it was the largest Māori settlement in Canterbury with a population of about 400 people.[1] It is named after Solomon Levey, an Australian merchant and ship owner who sent a number of trading vessels to the Banks Peninsula area during the 1820s.

The bay was settled by the Ngai Tūāhuriri sub-tribe of Ngāi Tahu, and the chief Moki named the bay "Koukourarata" after a stream in Wellington that recalls the birth of his father, Tu Ahuriri.[2] It was also the home of Tautahi, the chief after whom the swampland area Ōtautahi was named – now the site of the city of Christchurch.

Koukourarata marae, a marae (tribal meeting ground) of Ngāi Tahu and its Te Rūnanga o Koukourarata branch, is located at Port Levy.[3] It includes the Tūtehuarewa wharenui (meeting house).[4] The first Māori Anglican church was built at Port Levy and a stone memorial marks the site.

Portions of the Peter Jackson film Heavenly Creatures were shot in Port Levy — specifically the scenes where Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme, two 16-year-old girls from Christchurch, saw their imaginary Fourth World.

The three hapū of Koukourarata are Ngāi Tūhaitara, Ngāi Tūtehuarewa and Ngāti Huikai.

See also

• Parker–Hulme murder case

References

External links

• Website of the local rununga
• Recent community statistics
• Detail on Māori history
• Now part of Christchurch City
• "Heavenly Creatures" locations
• Biography of Solomon Levey

На других языках

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- [en] Port Levy

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[ru] Порт-Леви

Порт-Леви (англ. Port Levy, маори Koukourarata) — посёлок на берегу одноимённого залива на полуострове Банкс в регионе Кентербери на Южном острове Новой Зеландии.

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