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Stewart Island/Rakiura (N.Z.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:

Alan K Buckingham Collection

 Record Group
Identifier: A0617
Overview Processing Note: This collection is awaiting arrangement and description. Please contact Archives staff for details of collection content.
Dates: Majority of material found within c. 1959 - 1971
Found in: Invercargill City Libraries and Archives / Alan K Buckingham Collection

BRADSHAW, Rex Lindsay John interviewed by Morag Forrester

 Record Group — Box 51
Identifier: H0551
Overview Rex grew up in the 1930s on Stewart Island surrounded by the sea and people whose lives were ruled by the tides and the weather. Despite his mothers’ efforts to prevent him going into an industry that had taken the lives of some of her immediate family, Rex spent nearly 50 years making a living from the seas around his childhood home and along the Fiordland Coast. He remembers a time when crayfish were considered not worth catching. In this profile he gives an account of those early days and...
Dates: 2004
Found in: Southland Oral History Project / BRADSHAW, Rex Lindsay John interviewed by Morag Forrester

BUCKINGHAM, Rhys Phillip interviewed by Chrissy Wickes

 Record Group — Box 18
Identifier: H0325
Overview In this interview Rhys talks of his interest and passion for discovering kakapo and kokako in Fiordland and on Stewart Island. He details various expeditions and the work that he has done and the many people he has worked alongside. Telling of their strengths and passion for what they were doing and the successes he and others had.
Dates: 2017
Found in: Southland Oral History Project / BUCKINGHAM, Rhys Phillip interviewed by Chrissy Wickes

COX, Andrew (Andy) interviewed by Chrissy Wickes

 Record Group — Box 22
Identifier: H0394
Overview This interview looks at Any Cox's involvement in the early days of kakapo recovery programme in Stewart Island and Fiordland and elsewhere.
Dates: 2019
Found in: Southland Oral History Project / COX, Andrew (Andy) interviewed by Chrissy Wickes

DARBY, John Terrance interviewed by Chrissy Wickes

 Record Group — Box 19
Identifier: H0324
Overview In this interview John talks about his involvement in the Stewart Island Kakapo recovery programme. He also worked at the Otago Museum as a Scientific Officer in Zoology starting in 1969, curating biological collections. John goes on to describe his career as a Zoologist based at the Otago Museum. Here he initiated the children’s programme and interactive science areas. He goes on to describe yellow eyed penguins and the differences to other penguin species.
Dates: 2017
Found in: Southland Oral History Project / DARBY, John Terrance interviewed by Chrissy Wickes

F.G. [Frederick George] Hall-Jones Collection

 Record Group
Identifier: A0001
Overview This collection contains material from noted Southland historian and author Frederick (Fred) George Hall-Jones. It includes a large number of maps (originals and copies), many with hand-written notations. Also included are his research notes on Southland history, newspaper clippings, as well as various historical pamphlets and publications.
Dates: Majority of material found within c.1793 - 1986
Found in: Invercargill City Libraries and Archives / F.G. [Frederick George] Hall-Jones Collection

Foster Postcard and Photograph Collection

 Record Group
Identifier: A0630
Overview Processing Note: This collection is awaiting arrangement and description. Please contact Archives staff for details of collection content.
Dates: Majority of material found within c.1910 - 1917
Found in: Invercargill City Libraries and Archives / Foster Postcard and Photograph Collection

Fraser Collection

 Record Group
Identifier: A0689
Processing Information This collection is awaiting arrangement and description. Please contact Archives staff for details of collection content.

Contains: Photocopied pages of a travel diary by Emma Hulda Fraser detailing her trip to New Zealand (especially Invercargill and Stewart Island) in 1970 - 1971.
Dates: 1970 - 1971
Found in: Invercargill City Libraries and Archives / Fraser Collection

GIBB, Aroha Maria interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen

 Record Group — Box 26
Identifier: H0102
Overview This interview is part of the Headcases Collaborative Art Project, done in conjunction with the Southland Festival of the Arts and the Cancer Society. In this interview Aroha gives a history of her family, education, employment, her engagement in Maori Culture and her children’s interests. She then tells of her diagnosis with cancer and her journey through this e.g. treatment, how she and her family coped, and getting involved in Headcases.
Dates: 2012
Found in: Southland Oral History Project / GIBB, Aroha Maria interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen

Halfmoon Bay School

 Record Group
Identifier: A0234
Dates: Majority of material found within 1883 - 1957, 2003; 2003
Found in: Invercargill City Libraries and Archives / Halfmoon Bay School

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