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Feature shown on: NZMS260 U16 Edition 1 1982; NZTopo50-BF37 907651; 'Bay of Plenty, between Rotorua and Lake Tarawera. Green Lake is adjacent to Blue Lake, both being noted for their colour. Maori name: Rotokakahi, lit. roto: lake; kakahi: freshwater shellfish (Hyridella menziesi). The kakahi provided an important part of the diet of the lake dwellers, and was a favourite food of invalids and for motherless babies when a wet-nurse was not available. ‘Ko te kakahi te whaea a te tamaiti,’ they said — ‘The kakahi is the mother of the child.’ Unfortunately all the kakahi in the lake were destroyed in the Tarawera eruption.' Source: Reed, A.W. & Peter Dowling, Place Names of New Zealand, 2010.
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