Happy New Year

[Kiwi]

Happy New Year from New Zealand, the first country to see in the new year.
All the best for your electronics projects in 2025.

 

[Delta Prime]

Happy New Year from New Zealand, the first country to see in the new year

Happy new year to you as well.
I have always wanted to visit.
Taumata whakatangi hangakoauau o tamatea turi pukakapiki maunga horo nuku pokai whenua kitanatahu.
In Porangahau, Hawkes’ Bay

 

[Kiwi]

"Near Porangahau in Hawke’s Bay is an unassuming hill known as "Taumata whakatangi hangakoauau o tamatea turi pukakapiki maunga horo nuku pokai whenua kitanatahu", which translates into English as "the place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, climbed and swallowed mountains, known as 'landeater’, played his flute to his loved one." Locals simply call it Taumata Hill.

Tamatea was a famous chief and warrior. One day, while travelling through the back of Porangahau, he encountered another tribe and had to fight them to get past. During the fight his brother was killed. Tamatea was so grieved over the loss of his brother that he stayed at the battle site for some days. Each morning he would sit on the hill and play a lament on what is called the koauau or Maori flute."

 

[Martaine2005]

Happy new year from London UK

 

[Harald Kapp]

Happy new year from Berlin, Germany, too.

 

[bertus]

Happy new year from Amsterdam, the netherlands, too

 

[Delta Prime]

Locals simply call it Taumata Hill.

You’re the man! Thank you for the story; now I gotta go… I’ll be there just in time for the Spring Festival Duck Day.
Happy new year! From Los Angeles, California!