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Description
A small coastal island at height 7m located just north of midway along Te Oneroa-a-Tōhē / Ninety Mile Beach. Feature shown on: NZMS260 N03; NZTopo50-AU25 900617; Te Aupouri history: Mutu Kapa (kaumatua of Whanau Pani hapu of Te Aupouri) stated at the Māori Land Court's 1957 Te Oneroa a Tōhē title investigation that “when they reached Maunganui, Tōhē looked out into the ocean and saw an object resembling a canoe. He stated that the object looked like a canoe that God made for fishing. From that he gave that object the name Te Waka e Haua”. (Northern Minute Book Vol 85, 1957. Copy of the Record of Proceedings of the Māori Land Court at Kaitaia on Nov 12-15, 1957, p. 719).