The Wairau Bar, or Te Pokohiwi, is a 19 ha gravel bar formed where the Wairau River meets the sea in Cloudy Bay, Marlborough, north-eastern South Island, New Zealand. It is an important archaeological site, apparently settled within one or two generations of the arrival of Polynesians in New Zealand. It is the earliest known human settlement in New Zealand. At the time of the occupation it is believed to have been a low island 2–3 m high, 1.1 km long and 0.4 km wide.
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