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Stewart Island

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Stewart Island

Volcanic island divided from South Island, New Zealand, by the Foveaux Strait; area 1,750 sq km/676 sq mi; population (2006) 402. Its highest point is Mount Anglem, 975 m/3,200 ft. Industries include farming, fishing, oyster-catching, granite quarrying, and tourism. Oban is the main settlement.

The coast is deeply indented, and Paterson Inlet is a good harbour. The island is mountainous and thickly forested.
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s smallest at only 25cm tall and can be seen at The Marlborough Sounds, Akaroa Harbour, Oamaru and Stewart Island.
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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.
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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.
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