Kupe's Sails, Ngā Rā ō Kupe, near Cape Palliser, one of many landscape references to Kupe, the discoverer and shaper of Aotearoa

The shape of the near sail is not dissimilar to the 'leg-of-mutton' style sails used on Polynesian canoes, a triangular sail held up by a long gaff secured to a short mast. The arc described at left by the outline of the stone face is rather too full but overall the impression is strikingly convincing. On the far side of the stream is a second sail, not showing as well in this view to the north-east.