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Lake Manapouri
Lake Manapouri is located in the South Island of New Zealand. The lake is situated within the Fiordland National Park and the wider region of Te Wahipounamu South West New Zealand World Heritage Area.
==Māori History==
According to Māori legend Lake Manapouri was created by the tears of two sisters, Moturua and Koronae, who were daughters of an old chief in the region.〔(【引用サイトリンク】first= )〕 Koronae journeyed deep into the forest one day only to become stranded after a fall.〔 Her sister Moturua went looking for her and when she found Koronae she realised that Koronae could not be rescued.〔 Moturua lay with Koronae and there they lay until they died, their tears creating Lake Manapouri.〔 Lake Manapouri means anxious or sorrowful heart because of the grief of the two sisters however the present name was given by mistake.〔 An early settler accidentally called it by the name of one of the Mavora Lakes, which lie between Lake Te Anau and Lake Wakatipu.〔 The original name of the lake is believed to have been Roto-ua which translates to Rainy Lake and later Moturau which means Many Islands.〔 Māori have a long history in the area, finding the lake and its surroundings offering an abundance of food in the form of eels and bird such as pigeon and New Zealand kaka (forest parrot).〔 Manapouri was discovered by Europeans in 1852, by the explorers Charles J Nairn and W H Stevens.〔
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