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Feature shown on: NZMS260 R26 PtR25; NZTopo50-BP32 601720; 'Wellington, off Kapiti Island. See Motunga rara. This island was sometimes called Hikos Island, from Te Hiko, a chief who lived here; earlier it was known as Lewis’s Island after an American whaling station located on the island. Fishing families including the Johnsons, Watsons and Webbers established fishing huts on the island. It was paired with Tahoramaurea and called The Brothers on the Conway chart of the island of 1837.' Source: Reed, A.W. & Peter Dowling, Place Names of New Zealand, 2010.