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Kōrero: Manawatū and Horowhenua places

Lake Papaitonga

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Lake Papaitonga

Papaitonga, also known as Waiwiri, is the smaller of the two lakes near Levin. A home to the Muaūpoko people, along with Lake Horowhenua, it is now a wetland reserve.

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Malcolm McKinnon, Manawatū and Horowhenua places – Horowhenua, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/9458/lake-papaitonga (accessed 24 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Malcolm McKinnon, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, updated 22 April 2015.