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Part II. Port Nicholson (Whanga-nui-a-Tara.)
Part II. Port Nicholson (Whanga-nui-a-Tara.)
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Fig. 63.—Port Nicholson. Showing Native names, from information supplied by Messrs. Elsdon Best and H. N. McLeod. on a map compiled by Mr. H. J. W. Mason, published by the Lands and Survey Department, 1916. References: Remains of old Pas shown ⊕, Villages +, Occupations ≈
Port Nicholson, or as the Maoris termed it, “Poneke,” was named after Captain J. Nicholson, harbour-master at Sydney, either by Captain Herd of the “Rosanna,” or by T. Barnett, master of the little vessel “Lambton,” in 1826. In McNab's “From Tasman to Marsden” the following paragraph, dated 1818, occurs:—
“The next Sydney vessel to call in at the bay was the ‘Haweis,’ commanded by Capt. Nicholson (after whom Port Nicholson is named).” The bay referred to was the Bay of Islands.
Lambton Harbour was named by Colonel Wakefield in 1839, in honour of the Earl of Durham (Mr. Lambton), governor of the N.Z. Company.