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Definition of Rakiura in English: Rakiuranounˈrɑːkɪʊrə NZ he visited Rakiura to research the whaling station that flourished in the 1920s Maori name for Stewart Island Example sentencesExamples - 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.
Origin Mid 19th century: Maori, literally 'glowing sky'. |