Bulli Point
Bulli Point
Te Pōporo (Māori) | |
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Headland | |
 Looking down into Lake Taupō from Bulli Point | |
| Location | Lake Taupō, New Zealand |
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Bulli Point (Māori: Te Pōporo, officially gazetted as Te Pōporo / Bulli Point) is a point on Lake Taupō, in the central North Island of New Zealand. The point is a popular spot for rock jumping.[1][2]
Location
[edit | edit source]Bulli Point sits in Motutere Bay on the eastern side of Lake Taupō. It lies close to State Highway 1, less than one kilometre east of Motutere.
Naming
[edit | edit source]The name Te Pōporo is a Te Reo Māori name taken from the pā that once stood on the hill above the point.[3] It was one of several important pā located between Motutere and Hatepe. The pā may have been named after Pōporo, a Māori name for Solanum aviculare and Solanum laciniatum, a local shrub with white to blue-purple flowers, and yellow to orange fruit,[4] sometimes called bullibulli.[5] A point on the western side of the lake, Te Poroporo Point,[6] also contains a word for the same shrub, Poroporo.[7]
The origin of the name Bulli Point is unclear. Toitū Te Whenua's New Zealand Gazetteer suggests it may be a contraction of Bull Island Point, as this is what it was recorded as on NZMS 3 N102-6 Te Rangiiti.[8]
In popular culture
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