In Māori tradition, Waipapa was one of the great ocean-going, voyaging canoes that was used in the migrations that settled Northland of Aotearoa (New Zealand). The captains were Kaiwhetu and Wairere,^[1] who landed the waka in Doubtless Bay.^[2]

The exact landing site of the Waipapa is contested.^[2] Various accounts place the landing point at Rangiaowhia, Taipa, Oruru,^[2] or Karikari Peninsula.^[1]

The captain asked his crew to take tawapou log rollers off the canoe, which had been carried from Hawaiki, and plant them on the slopes of a nearby hill. From the rollers grew a grove of tawapou trees that today serve as a memorial of the arrival of the canoe.^{[citation needed]}