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Mahia Peninsula
The Mahia Peninsula is located on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, between the cities of Napier and Gisborne.
==Geography==
The peninsula is long and wide rising to its highest point at Rahuimokairoa reaching about above sea level.〔(Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand: Mahia Peninsula )〕 Mahia was initially an island which over time, has had a sand bar join it to the North Island. Whales often strand on the shallow sand build up.
Early whalers had a whaling station on the farm 'Kini Kini", sheltered by 'Long Point' on the west coast of the peninsula. Portland Island ('Waikawa') was named by Kahungunu when he visited there to look for fresh drinking water and only found salt water. Waikawa means 'sour water'. Waikawa is a small island off the southern tip of Mahia Peninsula with an unmanned lighthouse. The name Mahia means 'indistinct sound'.
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