== König der Māori ==Auch ab dem Jahr 1840 besuchte Pōtatau Te Wherowhero die Stämme, gegen die er Jahre zuvor Krieg geführt hatte. ###>Pōtatau Te Wherowhero was selected as King by a meeting of chiefs of the Māori tribes held at Pūkawa on the south-eastern shore of Lake Taupo in 1857.