Recently, I travelled to Stewart Island with a group of six friends. Our aim was to explore the island and check out local bird and marine life, including, hopefully, spotting a kiwi in the wild.
This was my first visit and I didn’t know what to expect. I’d done my usual amount of research (none) and was happy to let everyone else do the organising.
The sum total of my knowledge of the island was as follows: it was somewhere south of Bluff and was probably named after someone called Stewart.
Post-trip research reveals that my postulations were bang on.
The island, New Zealand’s third largest, does dwell on the other side of Bluff and is, in fact, named after William
