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==History== [[Te Āti Awa]] and [[Ngāti Tama]] recognize the channel Kura Te Au as an important historic {{Lang|Mi|mahinga kai}} (food source), and settlement for [[Te Āti Awa]]. The channel was used as a primary highway by [[Te Āti Awa]], and is still monitored and defended by the iwi in the environmental courts. The name Kura Te Au originates from the red colour of the sea caused by a variety of plankton and the high populations of crustacean krill. According to legend, Kura Te Au is where [[Kupe]] killed the giant, mythical octopus, [[Te Wheke-a-Muturangi]], causing its blood to run through the channel, turning the water red. [[Kurahaupō]] and [[Rangitāne]] give the meaning "the red current" for Kura Te Au.<ref name="NZGB Kura Te Au">{{cite web |title=Kura Te Au|url=https://gazetteer.linz.govt.nz/place/54599|website=gazetteer.linz.govt.nz |accessdate=5 January 2023}}</ref> [[James Cook]] anchored several times in the nearby bay he named [[Meretoto / Ship Cove|Ship Cove]]. He sighted the Tory Channel in an excursion on the pinnace from his ship [[HMS Resolution (1771)|HMS ''Resolution'']] on 5 November 1774. [[John Guard]] established the first permanent whaling station on [[Arapaoa Island]] in 1827, targeting whales in the Tory Channel for their [[baleen]] and [[whale oil]].<ref>{{Cite Q|Q58677530}}</ref> Another whaler, John Stein, navigated the areas between [[Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui|Queen Charlotte Sound]] and [[Cloudy Bay]] in his whaling barque William the Fourth, and found "a very large navigable river ... which he named William the Fourth River."<ref>The Hobart Town Courier, 14 Sep 1832</ref> According to Robert McNab's 1913 book 'The Old Whaling Days', which drew upon the knowledge of John Duncan, a resident of the Sound, to identify the locations visited by Stein in his 1832 voyage, this 'river' is now known as the Tory Channel. Tory Channel was accurately surveyed in 1840 and named after the [[New Zealand Company]] ship ''[[New Zealand Company ships#Tory|Tory]]'', a pioneer ship that brought British colonists to [[Wellington]]. Around this time, whaling stations were already operating in Te Awaiti Bay. Between 1911 and 1964, the Perano family hunted whales from Whekenui Bay. [[Humpback whale]]s were spotted from the hills at the Tory Channel entrance during their migration through Cook Strait. The Perano Whaling Station was the last whaling operation in New Zealand and closed in 1964. The name of the channel was officially altered to Tory Channel / Kura Te Au in August 2014.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.linz.govt.nz/regulatory/place-names/recent-place-name-decisions-and-place-names-interest/nzgb-decisions-august |title=NZGB decisions |date=August 2014 |publisher=Land Information New Zealand |accessdate=6 November 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151121203027/http://www.linz.govt.nz/regulatory/place-names/recent-place-name-decisions-and-place-names-interest/nzgb-decisions-august |archivedate=21 November 2015 }}</ref>
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