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Feature shown on: NZMS260 R07 R06 S07; NZTopo50-AW32 577740; See [history relating to Cook's place names](https://earth.google.com/web/data=Mj8KPQo7CiExMjJfZ1puZmJFV2hFRFlvSFVNVG5YU05CRWZTYTBfSWoSFgoUMEU0REZDMERCNjBGRUFBNjU1ODU); 'Named by Captain James Cook on 25 November 1769, possibly in reference to a popular English dish at the time of Cook’s voyages. Poor Knights consisted of hunks of bread dipped in egg and fried — and Cook, in one of his rare moments of imagination, may have used it for these islands, ‘brown, upstanding and rocky’. The ‘Knights’ in order of size, commencing with the largest, are Tawhitirahi, Aorangi, Motukapiti, Aorangaia and Archway (Mammoth).' Source: Reed, A.W. & Peter Dowling, Place Names of New Zealand, 2010.
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