Ruapuke Island is one of the southernmost islands in New Zealand's main chain of islands. It is located 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) to the southeast of Bluff...
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Ruapuke is a small farming community (predominantly sheep and cattle farmers) in the Waikato region on the slopes of Karioi, between Raglan and Kawhia...
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Kiti Karaka Rīwai (category People from Ruapuke Island)
Ahitana, or Kiti Ashton) was a New Zealand tribal leader. She was born in Ruapuke Island, Southland, New Zealand in 1870, to parents Arapetere Karaka (Albert...
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oysters. There are a large number of small islands in the strait, including Ruapuke Island and the northern Muttonbird Islands. These islands are locations...
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Island Ripapa Island Rotoroa Island Rurima Rocks, including Rurima Island Ruapuke Island Secretary Island Shark Island, Manukau Harbour Shoe Island / Motuhoa...
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large and many small islands lie around the coast. Notable among these are Ruapuke Island, in Foveaux Strait 32 kilometres (20 mi) northeast of Oban; Codfish...
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Europeans, in this case sealers, whalers and missionaries such as Wohlers at Ruapuke Island. Contact was established as early as 1813. By the 1830s, Kāi Tahu...
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Eliza Wohlers (category People from Ruapuke Island)
and were married two months later. Johan had already spent five years on Ruapuke Island in Foveaux Strait, and he took Eliza there to work with him on his...
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Rock and The Haystacks. It is not to be confused with the neighbouring Ruapuke Island which was also named Bench Island. Bench Island was previously known...
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Johan Wohlers (category People from Ruapuke Island)
1885) was a Lutheran missionary from Germany who lived for 41 years on Ruapuke Island, a small island in New Zealand's deep south. Wohlers was born in...
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