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Encyclopedia > Ruapuke Island

Ruapuke Island is one of the southernmost islands in New Zealand's main chain of islands. It lies 25 kilometres to the southeast of Bluff and 32 kilometres northeast of Oban on Stewart Island. The island covers an area of about 16 km2.


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RUAPUKE ISLAND Shipping Disasters Before 1900 (206 words)
RUAPUKE ISLAND: Low lying island, 13km by 6km, 1600ha in area, in the eastern approaches to Foveaux Strait, 20km south-east from Bluff, 30km north-east from Stewart Island, Southland District.
The Island is privately owned, and most of the area, apart from a few strands of bush, is now either scrub or open land used for sheep grazing.
In the early 1800’s Ruapuke Island was a stronghold for the Ngai Tahu paramount chief Tuhawaiki (“Bloody Jack”), and supported the largest Maori population in southern New Zealand.
Stewart Island/Rakiura - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1068 words)
The north of the island is dominated by the swampy valley of the Freshwater River.
The highest peak on the island is Mt Anglem, close to the northern coast, at a height of 979 metres.
In the southeast, the land is somewhat lower, and is drained by the valleys of the Toitoi, Lords and Heron rivers.
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