Stewart Island Place Names
... ... a residents view of some of our place names and their stories....Many Stewart Island place names have suffered under a succession of map makers with many names altered in a quite cavalier fashion.
Historians have to a large extent managed to unravel these, but the story of some of course are lost in the mists of time.
The story of the Island comes to life in our Stewart Island Place Names. There are far too many to include them all here, but we hope to have some of the more interesting. The material comes from a variety of sources, some official, some from Maori and some commonly used local names. Where a place has (or has had) several names we will start with the Maori name, followed by successive names up to the present.
For further reading follow this link where you will find a short list of Island focused histories.
We welcome suggestions, brick bats and roses, as we don’t claim to be an authority by any means.
This is very much a work in progress, and pages will be added as time allows
This project grew out of a conversation I had many years ago with Harold Ashwell. We had been chartered to take a group down to Port Pegasus, filming Maori oral history. Incidentally one of the most personally rewarding charters I had hosted. Harold told me of a book he had authored on local Maori place names, which reminded me of a book by John Hall Jones on Fiordland place names. We tossed around the idea of having a website devoted to placenames, and I looked into the possibility of making it happen…which went nowhere really as the tech wasn’t really affordably available. But then along came Google Earth and Maps, and all of a sudden I had a vehicle to make it happen. Harrold has since sadly passed on, and I would like to dedicate these resources to his memory and his foresight in recording such important history.
Zoom the map in or out using the map controls on the left
Click in the appropriate Icon, and then on the link within the box to go to the Place Name Page
All of the aerial images were taken while on two separate flights on 1st March 2017, and 1st March 2018.
The slide show below is just a fraction of the images I took, give a glimpse of our Islands stunning coast
These links are more or less in clockwise direction around the Island, starting at North Island
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Stewart Island Electricity is generated using diesel fuel
Sails Ashore is Solar Powered
But we now produce 100 % of our electrical needs, and are completely "Off Grid", Excess electricity is used to heat our domestic hot water and central heating system and this has cut our non renewable heating fuel usage to around 20% of pre solar.. All cooking is electric, no more LPG. See More .......
Kowhai Lane is also Solar powered,
Kowhai Lane is "Grid Tied" Excess production is used to heat water. Production beyond the house requirements is exported, thus cutting diesel use in the wider grid. At night Kowhai Lane Lodge receives power from the grid.
Like Sails Ashore, all cooking is electric,,,,, No LPG
Sails Ashore, Kowhai Lane & Sails Tours
11 View Street,
Stewart Island, 9846
NEW ZEALAND
+64 3 219 1151
Email: tait@sailsashore.co.nz
Web: www.sailsashore.co.nz