EXPLORING NEW ZEALAND
Sir-John Pascoe’s feature on 2YC of April 27 contained one or two inaccuracies. Brunner and Heaphy were not within miles of Farewell. They crossed the range west of Golden Bay and reached the coast at West Whanganui Inlet, where they followed the coast southwards. The name of the lake as I ‘heard it sounded like Rotorua. It should be Rotoroa, meaning "long lake." There is no need to call it Lake Rotoroa, as the Maori word Roto means lake, and such a name would be equivalent to saying Lake Lake. No one talks of Lake Loch Lomond or Lake Lough Neagh, so why the duplication in the Maori name? When Brunner was on the summit of Victoria Range, surely he could not see over the main range to view the foothills bordering the Canterbury Plain; the Spenser Mountains would be too high to see over. '
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(Gisborne).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 723, 22 May 1953, Page 5
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150EXPLORING NEW ZEALAND New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 723, 22 May 1953, Page 5
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