Green Island (Otago)
| Green Island | ||
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 45 ° 57 ′ S , 170 ° 23 ′ E | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Green Island ( Māori : Okaihae ) is an island two kilometers off the coast of Dunedin in New Zealand . The nearest town is Waldronville .
The name of one of the suburbs of Dunedin is indirectly derived from the island, it comes from Green Island bush , an area of natural bush that extends from the valley in which the city is located over the hills to the coast near this island. Green Island is uninhabited and is 13 km southwest of Dunedin near the mouth of the Kaikorai Lagoon.
It is believed that this is the 'Isle of Wight' on which the sealers Brothers from Sydney , which was chartered by Robert Campbell and led by Robert Mason, exposed in November 1809, eight out of eleven convicts. Among them was William Tucker . Alternatively, the 'Isle of Wight' can also be Taieri Island , a few kilometers south , in which case Green Island could have been the 'Ragged Rock' where the remaining three men were abandoned. Some of the abandoned claimed to have spent the period from November 9, 1809 to December 20, 1810 on the island.
Green Island was previously called St Michael's Mount . It has been believed that this name was derived from the island of the same name on the Cornish coast . It is more likely, however, that it was named after the mother ship Tommy Chaseland , who was named St. Michael when he toured the area in the 1820s. He told Edward Shortland that he had lost a boat with all of its crew while attempting to land on the island. He himself stayed the night alone on the island and was picked up by another boat the next day.
Guano was mined on the island in the 1880s .