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Shell beds high in the mountains are a common source of wonder, as are volcanoes, hot springs, recently elevated beaches, and earthquakes.

More correctly the land we call Aotearoa or New Zealand was pushed, rather than hauled, from the sea by geological forces. In Maori mythology the metaphor used for this process is the action of the Trickster God, Maui who is said to have hauled up the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand in the form of a fish from the depths of Moana Nui a Kiwa (the Pacific Ocean).

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