High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 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 relating to the early settlement of the M ori people in New Zealand, both as a burial site and a midden with the remains of numerous butchered moa, and other now-extinct fauna, being found there. It has been dated to c.1100-1350 CE.