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Feature shown on: NZMS260 Y19 X20 Y20; NZTopo50-BJ42 198397; See [history relating to Cook's place names](https://earth.google.com/web/data=Mj8KPQo7CiExMjJfZ1puZmJFV2hFRFlvSFVNVG5YU05CRWZTYTBfSWoSFgoUMDU4RUJCMTdGMjEwMDQ2Q0E4MDY); 'In Cook’s journal for 12 October 1769 the following entry appears: ‘This Island I have named Isle of Portland, on account of its very great resemblance to Portland in the English Channel.’ Maori name: Waikawa: lit. wai: water; kawa: bitter. The ancestor Kahungunu named the island because he could find only salt water here.' Source: Reed, A.W. & Peter Dowling, Place Names of New Zealand, 2010.
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