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South Island
(Place)

Also known as: Te Waipounamu; Middle Island.

Subject of Texts

Mentioned in

PEOPLE & PLACES Publisher’s Advertisement Take 5 New Novels Title Page of Dr Solander's Manuscript — Translated, this reads: — The First Fruits of the Flora of New Zealand — Or — Catalogue of Plants Collected in the North and South Islands — of New Zealand from 8th october to 31st March AD 1769 and — 1770 — ‘Eahei no Mauwe’ and ‘T'avai Poenammoo’ are Solander's (and Cook's) way of writing the Maori prases ‘he ahi no Maui’ (a fire of Maui) and ‘Te Wai-Pounamu’ (the water of greenstone). Cook adopted these names for the North and South Islands, though he stated he could not be sure whether they referred in each case to the whole island or to a district of it. Actually the Maoris called the North Island ‘Te Ika a Maui’ (Maui's fish) and the South Island ‘Te Waka a Maui’ (Maui's canoe)

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For several reasons, including lack of resource and inherent ambiguity, not all names in the NZETC collections are marked-up. This means that finding all references to a topic often involves searching. Search for South Island as: "South Island", "Te Waipounamu"; "Middle Island". Additional references are often found by searching for just the main name of the topic (the surname in the case of people).

Other Collections

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