A rocky reef, parts of which break the surface at low tide, extends for 100 metres (110 yd) from the western end of the island.

It has been translated, probably too literally, as 'The girl's great night', giving rise to witty suggestions as to why that might be.

Goodall and Griffiths suggested it should be understood as 'Pou-nui-a-Hine, referring to a post being a memorial to some significant event involving Hine'.

William Tucker who later settled at Whareakeake (Murdering Beach), near Otago Heads, was in the gang.

[2] On 1 May 1826 Thomas Shepherd, keeping a journal as he approached this coast as nurseryman to the first New Zealand Company's settlement expedition in the Rosanna, accompanied by the Lambton, said he 'saw two remarkable Sugar loaf Rocks in the sea near the shore about 100 feet (30 m) high'.