oati-piha

Updated: May 25, 2025

At night Cook's ships approached Oati-piha, or Ohetepeha, Bay, as his log-writers termed this lagoon, from the Vaitapiha River, flowing into it, and the dawn found them in a calm a mile and a half from the reef. They put down boats and tried to tow off their ships, but the tide set them in more and more toward the rocks.

Frederick O'Brien - Mystic Isles of the South Seas.