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Feature shown on: NZMS260 Z17; NZTopo50-BF44 669381; See [history relating to Cook's place names](https://earth.google.com/web/data=Mj8KPQo7CiExMjJfZ1puZmJFV2hFRFlvSFVNVG5YU05CRWZTYTBfSWoSFgoUMEE5REJBQTU3RDEwMDQ2OTFCMkU); 'Lit. A platform elevated on a post and attached to the stockade of a pa. It was used as a watchtower. The Arrowsmith map of 1841 has the name Mouitera, possibly a corruption of Motutere (or Moutere): lit. motu: island; tere: to float.On 29 October 1769, Captain James Cook named it Sporing Island after Joseph Banks’ secretary, Herman Spöring, who died at sea after the Endeavour left Batavia. According to Te Ara; The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, he was the first Finn to set foot on New Zealand. It may earlier have been known as Loisel’s Island after a settler in the area, Henri Loisel.' Source: Reed, A.W. & Peter Dowling, Place Names of New Zealand, 2010.
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