WHAT TO SEE ON STEWART ISLAND.—The Automobile Association sign at Oban, Halfmoon Bay, indicates to visitors the places worth seeing within three miles and a half of the township. The nearest places listed are the Stewart Island Museum (left) and Bathing Beach (right), both a quarter of a mile distant. The notice on the museum reads: “Stewart Island Museum, Rakiura.” The island is known to the Maoris as Rakiura, Land of the Glowing Skies. Fourteen miles from the South Island, Stewart Island is roughly triangular, 40 miles long and 20 miles wide, and has an area of 665 square miles. Oban is 22 miles by sea from Bluff.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31632, 19 March 1968, Page 8
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108WHAT TO SEE ON STEWART ISLAND.—The Automobile Association sign at Oban, Halfmoon Bay, indicates to visitors the places worth seeing within three miles and a half of the township. The nearest places listed are the Stewart Island Museum (left) and Bathing Beach (right), both a quarter of a mile distant. The notice on the museum reads: “Stewart Island Museum, Rakiura.” The island is known to the Maoris as Rakiura, Land of the Glowing Skies. Fourteen miles from the South Island, Stewart Island is roughly triangular, 40 miles long and 20 miles wide, and has an area of 665 square miles. Oban is 22 miles by sea from Bluff. Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31632, 19 March 1968, Page 8
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