# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ui-te-rangiora
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:29:33.105Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ui-te-rangiora"
name: "Ui-te-Rangiora"
slug: "ui-te-rangiora"
description: "Ui-te-Rangiora or Hui Te Rangiora is a legendary Polynesian navigator who sailed to the Southern Ocean and is sometimes claimed to have discovered Antarctica in the early seventh century on the vessel Te Ivi o Atea. The legend originates from the island of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands archipelago, but this island was not populated until the tenth century."
tagline: "Maori navigator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/TonganCanoes.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "650"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           50.16
  momentum:             8.321167883211679
  historical:           12.448096
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ui-te-Rangiora"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hui_Te-Rangiora"
    title: "Hui Te-Rangiora"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ui-te-Rangiora"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ui-te-Rangiora"
    title: "Ui-te-Rangiora"
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    title: "Ui-te-Rangiora"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ui-te-Rangiora"
    title: "Ui-te-Rangiora"
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    title: "אוי-טה-רנגיאורה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ui-te-Rangiora"
    title: "Ui-te-Rangiora"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ui-te-Rangiora"
    title: "Ui-te-Rangiora"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ウイ・テ・ランギオラ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ui-te-Rangiora"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A8%81%E7%89%B9%E5%85%B0%E5%90%89%E5%A5%A5%E6%8B%89"
    title: "威特兰吉奥拉"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump