Stewart Island

American  

noun

1. one of the islands of New Zealand, S of South Island. 670 sq. mi. (1,735 sq. km).

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Stewart Island British  

noun

1. the third largest island of New Zealand, in the SW Pacific off the S tip of South Island. Pop: 387 (2001). Area: 1735 sq km (670 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

Rakiura, or Stewart Island, is the largest of these.

From BBC • Jun. 26, 2023

The council said that decade-old rules about microchipping and neutering cats on nearby Stewart Island had helped protect New Zealand’s most famous native bird, the kiwi.

From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2018

Down Under Answers, for example, has a 22-day tour of New Zealand that starts in Christchurch and includes visits to Queenstown, Auckland and Stewart Island in the country’s far south.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2016

In 2013 the Discovery Channel came to Stewart Island to film the great white sharks for its popular Shark Week series.

From The Guardian • Jan. 28, 2016

The Stewart Island forms are mud oysters, those of Sydney Cove growing on rock.

From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Morris, Edward Ellis