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=== Islands of New Zealand ===
Māui's older brothers always refused to let him come fishing with them. One night, he wove for himself a flax fishing line and enchanted it with a [[karakia]] to give it strength; to this he attached the magic fish-hook made from the jawbone that his grandmother Murirangawhenua had given him. Then he stowed away in the hull of his brothers' [[waka (canoe)]]. The next morning, when the waka was too far from land to return, he emerged from his hiding place. His brothers would not lend him any bait, so he struck himself on the nose and baited the hook with his blood. He pulled up a giant fish which would become the [[North Island]] of New Zealand, known as ''Te Ika-a-Māui''; the valleys and mountains of the island were made by his brothers chopping up the fish for themselves. In some traditions his waka became the [[South Island]], known as ''[[Te Waka a Māui]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://eng.mataurangamaori.tki.org.nz/Support-materials/Te-Reo-Maori/Maori-Myths-Legends-and-Contemporary-Stories/Maui-and-the-giant-fish|title=Māui and the giant fish|first=Wiremu|last=Grace|date=2016|website=Te Kete Ipurangi|publisher=Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga|access-date=19 January 2019}}</ref> (Other traditions make the South Island the waka of [[Aoraki / Mount Cook#Māori history, legends and traditions|Aoraki]].)