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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).
The Stewart Island tokoeka (Apteryx australis lawryi), also called the Stewart Island kiwi, the Rakiura tokoeka, or the Rakiura kiwi, is a subspecies of southern brown kiwi endemic to New Zealand. Like other ratites , it is a flightless bird.
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 ( Oban ) and some roads as well as private or Māori-owned land further inland. [ 1 ]
The company offers a range of travel, cruises and excursions in Queenstown, Milford Sound / Piopiotahi, Te Anau, Fiordland and Stewart Island / Rakiura. [1] It also operates two skifields Cardrona Alpine Resort, and Treble Cone. The company is the successor of a series of acquisitions in the South Island tourist sector over more than 60 years. [2]
This species was first described from a single male by Ray Forster in 1956 and originally was named Ascuta rakiura. [2] [3] [4] It was transferred to the Tangata genus in 1985. [5] The holotype specimen was collected by Richard Dell and Beverley Holloway at Easy Cove on Stewart Island, during the 1955 Dominion Museum expedition. [6]
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.
The third subspecies, the Stewart Island bushwren or Stead's bushwren (X. l. variabilis), was found on Stewart Island / Rakiura and nearby islands. It is known to have survived on Stewart Island until 1951, [6] but was probably exterminated there by feral cats. It lived on Kotiwhenua (Solomon) Island, being
Stewart Island: Coordinates ... The Bull and Cow Islands, or Cow and Bull Islands is a group of islands in on the south west of Stewart Island / Rakiura, New Zealand. [1]