he visited Rakiura to research the whaling station that flourished in the 1920s
Maori name for Stewart Island
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Other areas include Northland and Rakiura National Park.
The Maori name for the island is Rakiura which means "land of the glowing skies" and visitors to the island see many beautiful sunrises and sunsets.
Most people come to Rakiura with backpacks and tramping boots, equipped to walk the tracks that cut across the island's magnificent national park.
However the real jewel, situated even further south, is a very small island, known as the anchor of New Zealand, called Rakiura or Stewart Island.
Flying to New York and noting the inevitable differences, he proposed Manhattan and Rakiura as opposites and worked with that dissonance rather than with the original site.
A Rakiura cruise has been featured in the last two issues of NZine.
There is a five day, four night, guided walk on Rakiura.
We were following the female's movements around Rakiura using satellite tracking equipment.
He imposed the grid system of Manhattan's street map on the interlacing of the Rakiura contours and coastlines.
The Rakiura holiday is centred round Halfmoon Bay.