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When Makoi set out on his own to name places (cfr E:38) he began at Apina Iti and ended with Apina Nui. He went clockwise - but withershins due to the location south of the equator of Easter Island.

Above I have omitted the added pieces of information. For instance was the full name of the 13th station Ko Te Hereke A Kino Ariki [E:43], which we now can connect with the story of Oroi threatening Hotu A Matua from his hiding-place in the sandalwood.

... This is why the place was given [Oira i nape ai] the name [te ingoa] 'the meeting place [hu kona] of the dangerous one(?)' (Te Tingaanga O Te Hereke), the residence [te kona noho] of  king Oroi [o te ariki.o Oroi]. This [i ira] was the hiding place [te naanga] of the bad person (mee rakerake 'the bad man') ... [E:1005]

Hereke was here perhaps to be interpreted as here-ke - a different type of (ké) eel-snare (he-re).

Ke. 1. Other; different; different being; hare ké, a different house; e-ké-ro-á... e-ké-ro-á... there are some who... and others who...; me'e ké, something distinct, different: te puaka ina oona kuhane; me'e ké te tagata, he hakari oona, he kuhane, an animal has no soul; man is different, he has a body, and a soul; matu'a ké, the other relatives. 2. Ké te kairua, person who turns up for meals at other people's homes. 3. Used in exclamations: hahau ké! what a cool breeze!; hana ké! how hot! takeo ké! how cold! Vanaga. Other, distinct, different, diverse, otherwise; koona ke, elsewhere; tagata ke, some one else; mea ke, contrary, distinct, otherwise; hakake, feint, stratagem, to feign; hagake, to act contrary. T Pau.: ke, different. Mgv.: ke, another, other, else, different, of partial comparative value. Mq.: ke, é, to be different, changed, no longer the same. Ta.: e, different, strange, other. Churchill. E, adv. and ppr. Haw., from, away, off, by, through, means of; also, adverbially, something other, something strange, new; adj. contrary, opposed, adverse, other, foreign. Sam.: e, ppr. by, of; ese, other different, strange. Ta., e, ppr. by, through, from; adv. away, off; adj. different, strange, distant; ee, strange. N. Zeal., ke, strange, different. Malg., eze, of, by. Greek, έκ, έξ, from out of, from, by, of; έκει, in that place, opp. to ένθαδε, in some other place than that of the speaker, thither; έκας, afar off. Lat., e, ex, out of, from. Liddell and Scott (Gr.-Engl. Dict., s. v.) say: 'The root of έτ-ερος is said to be the same as Sanskr. ant-aras, Goth. auth-ar, Germ. and-er, Lat. alt-er, aut, French aut-rui, our eith-er, oth-er, itara = alius, also in Sanskrit.' Whatever the root of ant-aras, auth-ar, alter, it seems to me that έκας shows nearer kindred to the Polynesian e, ke, ee, ese, eze, than to forms so developed as ant-ar, ant-ara, &c. Fornander.

Re. Pau.: victory. Ta.: re, prize in any contest, prey. Mgv.: Re-mai, to emerge from prison, to recover from illness, delivered from evil. Mq.: ee, to go, to escape. Sa.: lele, to go out (of the passing soul). Ha.: lele, to depart (of the spirit). Hakarehu, to surprise. Churchill.

Although Apina Nui was number 60 there were complications, foremost because number 55 was missing - maybe because day 355 indicated the northern winter solstice (and 355 = 300 + 55):

Number 43 was first overwritten and then given number 45. Similarly were numbers 30 and 31 also overwritten and given new numbers, viz. 31 respectively 32. Though without the ko article.

The net result could thus be regarded as 29 + 28 = 57 = 60 - 3.