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Stewart Island

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Stewart Island, island, 674 sq mi (1,746 sq km), S New Zealand, 20 mi (32 km) S of the South Island across Foveaux Strait. Halfmoon Bay is the main settlement. A mountainous and scenic island, it is a summer resort. Frozen fish and granite are exported. Seen by Cook in 1770, it was proved to be an island by American sealers in 1804. The Maori Maori , people of New Zealand and the Cook Islands, believed to have migrated in early times from other islands of Polynesia. Their tradition asserts that seven canoes brought their ancestors to New Zealand.
..... Click the link for more information.  called it Rakiura, "Island of the Glowing Sky."
Stewart Island
the third largest island of New Zealand, in the SW Pacific off the S tip of South Island. Pop.: 387 (2001). Area: 1735 sq. km (670 sq. miles)


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s smallest at only 25cm tall and can be seen at The Marlborough Sounds, Akaroa Harbour, Oamaru and Stewart Island.
Visit New Zealand and Bring Home Unforgettable Memories by Michiel Van Kets / Travel, recreation and leisure community
After 19 months castaway on the island Captain Musgrave and two of his crew set out from the Aucklands in the reconstructed five-metre boat, attempting to reach the nearest inhabited land, Stewart Island.
Seacoast stuff by Lloyd, Mike / Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue
Shepherd set out from Scotland in 1825 with a group of Scottish settlers to establish a new colony on Stewart Island in New Zealand with the object of growing flax.
Thomas Shepherd's Landscape Gardening in Australia (1836) by Crittenden, Victor / M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia
 
 
 
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