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Halfmoon Bay lies on the eastern coast of Stewart Island / Rakiura in New Zealand. Halfmoon Bay, 1977. The town of Oban lies in the bay. A small fishing fleet and a ferry service from Bluff use the bay. The gardens of Moturau Moana built by Isabel Noeline Baker, are New Zealand's southernmost public gardens. [1]
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.
Stewart Island covers 1,747.72 km 2 (674.80 sq mi) [1] including the offshore islands, the most sizeable being Ruapuke Island, Codfish Island / Whenua Hou and Taukihepa / Big South Cape Island. It had an estimated population of 460 as of June 2024, [ 3 ] with a population density of 0.26 people per km 2 .
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 ]
Oban is described by Statistics New Zealand as a rural settlement. It covers 2.59 km 2 (1.00 sq mi), [1] and had an estimated population of 340 as of June 2024, [2] with a population density of 131 people per km 2. It is part of the wider Stewart Island statistical area. [9]
Foveaux Strait (/ f oʊ v oʊ / FOH-voh; Māori: Te Ara-a-Kiwa, lit. 'the Path of Kiwa') is a strait that separates Stewart Island from the South Island of New Zealand. The width of the strait ranges from about 23 to 53 km (14 to 33 mi), and the depth varies between 18 and 46 m (59 and 151 ft).
Port Pegasus, officially Port Pegasus / Pikihatiti, [1] [2] (formerly South Port) is at the southern end of Stewart Island in New Zealand. From the 1890s to the 1950s, Port Pegasus was the site of a small fishing community. There was also a small tin-mining boom in the area in the 1890s. Today, there is no settlement at Port Pegasus, but the ...
Ulva Island-Te Wharawhara Marine Reserve is a marine reserve covering an area of 1,075 hectares (2,660 acres) south-west and north-east of Ulva Island, in the Paterson Inlet of New Zealand's Stewart Island. It was established in 2004 and is administered by the Department of Conservation. [1] [2]