This 1916 Wainuiomata map forms part of a broader Wellington District survey map. It includes a number of early Māori place names and the locations of several pā or traditional Māori settlements. Notably, it even records a lake once located in the lower Wainuiomata River area. The Remutaka Range is correctly spelt on the map, a name that was officially altered tp “Rimutaka” and changed back to the correct spelling in 2017.
Māori Place Names of Wainuiomata and the Eastbourne Area
Place names shown on the map.
Ngau-matau – Point Howard
Whiorau – Lowry Bay
Matiu – Somes Island
Oruamotoro – Days Bay area
Okiwi-iti – small bay between Days Bay and Eastbourne
Makaro – Ward Island
Okiwi-nui – Robinson Bay/Eastbourne area
Matua-iwi – pā at Okiwi-nui
Korohiwa – pā on the eastern harbour shore
Muritai
Paraoa-nui – settlement south of Eastbourne
Nga Hu
Nga Rerenga
Wainuiomata
Te Raina – pā near the lower Wainuiomata River
Orongorongo
Catchpole – old spelling of Catchpool
Remutaka Range
Port Nicholson
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