Land marks given prominence on the east coast are Otago Harbour, Akaroa and the other inlets of Banks Peninsular Kaikoura Peninsular, Port Underwood and Arapawa Island with a much widened Tory Channel between the capes Te Ata and Otoaha. Today these two latter names bear the names given to them by the whalers namely East and West Heads. To be viewed in its proper perspective Halswell's Maori map needs to be regarded as the first edition of the “New Zealand Pilot ” because of its benefit to coastal navigation.
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Tu Tangata, Issue 26, 1 October 1985, Page 36
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88Land marks given prominence on the east coast are Otago Harbour, Akaroa and the other inlets of Banks Peninsular Kaikoura Peninsular, Port Underwood and Arapawa Island with a much widened Tory Channel between the capes Te Ata and Otoaha. Today these two latter names bear the names given to them by the whalers namely East and West Heads. To be viewed in its proper perspective Halswell's Maori map needs to be regarded as the first edition of the “New Zealand Pilot” because of its benefit to coastal navigation. Tu Tangata, Issue 26, 1 October 1985, Page 36
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