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Feature shown on: NZMS260 S11 Edition 2 1994; NZTopo50-BA34 185265; See [history relating to Cook's place names](https://earth.google.com/web/data=Mj8KPQo7CiExMjJfZ1puZmJFV2hFRFlvSFVNVG5YU05CRWZTYTBfSWoSFgoUMEQ3MDY5OEE1NDEwMURGOUMyMEY); 'The name has been changed several times, for it was also Te Poroporo: lit. te: the; poroporo: to cut off. For a while it was called Beesons Island after the settler Beeson who came here in 1849. In more recent days it was called Pursers Island. John Logan Campbell called it Waiou (Waiau).' Source: Reed, A.W. & Peter Dowling, Place Names of New Zealand, 2010.
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