Stewart Island Place Names ……
Prices Inlet
Prices Inlet ….. Jack Price was a whaler and sealer, a wild man, in a time of wild men. At times too much even for his fellow sealers he was once marooned on Solander Island with his Maori wife, They escaped by building a corracle, and paddling the 20 odd miles to the mainland. No mean feat in those turbulent waters. He died in 1819, and is buried at Prices Beach in Preservation Inlet
Prices Inlet is slightly left of center of this photo.
Prices inlet, Kidneyfern Inlet in the foreground
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