Port Levy

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Port Levy ({{Langx|mi|Koukourarata}}) is a long, sheltered bay and settlement on Banks Peninsula in Canterbury, New Zealand. The current population is under 100, but in the mid-19th century it was the largest Māori settlement in Canterbury with a population of about 400 people.{{Cite web |title=Koukourarata |url=https://ngaitahu.iwi.nz/te-runanga-o-ngai-tahu/papatipu-runanga/koukourarata/ |access-date=2022-06-06 |website=Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu |language=en-NZ}} It is named after Solomon Levey, an Australian merchant and ship owner who sent a number of trading vessels to the Banks Peninsula area during the 1820s.

The bay was settled by the Ngai Tūāhuriri sub-tribe of Ngāi Tahu, and the chief Moki named the bay "Koukourarata" after a stream in Wellington that recalls the birth of his father, Tu Ahuriri.{{Cite web |title=Journal of the Polynesian Society: Ngai-Tahu: Notes Relating To, By Rahera Tainui, pp. 221–235 |url=http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document/Volume_55_1946/Volume_55,_No._3/Ngai-Tahu:_notes_relating_to,_by_Rahera_Tainui,_p_221-235/p1?page=0&action=searchresult&target= |access-date=2022-06-06 |website=jps.auckland.ac.nz}} It was also the home of Tautahi, the chief after whom the swampland area Ōtautahi was named{{spaced ndash}} now the site of the city of Christchurch.

Koukourarata marae, a marae (tribal meeting ground) of Ngāi Tahu and its Te Rūnanga o Koukourarata branch, is located at Port Levy.{{cite web|title=Te Kāhui Māngai directory|url= http://www.tkm.govt.nz/ |website=tkm.govt.nz|publisher=Te Puni Kōkiri}} It includes the Tūtehuarewa wharenui (meeting house).{{cite web |title=Māori Maps |url=https://maorimaps.com/map |website=maorimaps.com |publisher=Te Potiki National Trust}}

The three hapū of Koukourarata are Ngāi Tūhaitara, Ngāi Tūtehuarewa and Ngāti Huikai.