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Stewart Island/Rakiura (N.Z.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 49 Collections and/or Records:

Aerial View of Queens Park, the Estuary, Oreti Beach and Stewart Island, 1935

 Item — Box 2: Series S0079; Series S0094
Identifier: S00940008
Scope and Contents Aerial view of Invercargill focusing on Queens Park, looking out towards Stewart Island. The Estuary and Oreti Beach can also be seen.
Dates: 1935

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

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

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

Collected Historical Maps, 1793 - 1986, 1793, bulk: c.1824 - 1986

 Series
Identifier: S0010
Dates: 1793 - 1986; 1793; Majority of material found within c.1824 - 1986

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

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

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

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