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Stewart Island (Māori: Rakiura, lit. 'glowing skies', officially Stewart Island / Rakiura, formerly New Leinster) is New Zealand's third-largest island, located 30 kilometres (16 nautical miles) south of the South Island, across Foveaux Strait. It is a roughly triangular island with a land area of 1,746 km 2 (674 sq mi).
Oban is the principal settlement on Stewart Island, the southernmost inhabited island of the New Zealand archipelago.Oban is centred on Halfmoon Bay (sometimes used as an alternative name for the town), and stretches over a peninsula to Paterson Inlet.
Sikaiana (formerly called the Stewart Islands) is a small atoll 212 kilometres (132 miles) NE of Malaita in Solomon Islands in the south Pacific Ocean. It is almost 14 kilometres (8.7 miles) in length and its lagoon, known as Te Moana, is totally enclosed by the coral reef.
Rakiura National Park covers close to 1,400 square kilometres (540 sq mi), [3] which is about 85% of Stewart Island / Rakiura, New Zealand's third-largest island. The park area excludes the township area around Halfmoon Bay and some roads as well as private or Māori-owned land further inland. [1]
The aerodrome was built in the late 1970s to accommodate operations by Stewart Island Air Services. In the mid-1980s the runway and taxiways were asphalted.In 1990 a hill at one end of the strip was leveled; this left more room for aircraft to land and allowed easier access to the airstrip.
Stewart Island is an island of the Andaman Islands. It belongs to the North and Middle Andaman administrative district, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. [5] The island lies 150 km (93 mi) north of Port Blair. Its population only consists of two people.
Acker's Cottage is one of the first stone houses on New Zealand's Stewart Island (officially Stewart Island / Rakiura). The cottage was placed on the Heritage New Zealand list of historic places (category I) and has been restored by Heritage New Zealand and the Department of Conservation as an example of an early vernacular building.
Stuart Island, Alaska; Sikaiana, (formerly called the Stewart Islands) a 2 square kilometres (0.77 square miles) atoll with no safe anchorage in the Solomon Islands 212 kilometres (132 miles) NE of Malaita; Steward Island, an uninhabited island in King Christian IX Land, at the eastern end of Greenland; See also. Stewart Island / Rakiura in New ...