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Indian Island ( mi, Mamaku) is an 
The island is situated southeast of
island
An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...
in Dusky Sound
Tamatea / Dusky Sound is a fiord on the southwest corner of New Zealand, in Fiordland National Park.
Geography
One of the most complex of the many fiords on this coast, it is also the largest at 40 kilometres in length and eight kilometr ...
in Fiordland
Fiordland is a geographical region of New Zealand in the south-western corner of the South Island, comprising the westernmost third of Southland. Most of Fiordland is dominated by the steep sides of the snow-capped Southern Alps, deep lake ...
. Its name stems from first sightings of indigenous people on the island by James Cook in 1773.
The island is situated southeast of Anchor Island
Anchor Island ( mi, Pukenui) is an island in Dusky Sound in Fiordland.
The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "large hill" for .
The island is situated southwest of the much larger Resolution Island in th ...
and west of Long Island, and is part of Fiordland National Park.
Pest control of introduced animal species such as stoats and rats from 1999 onwards led to the island to be declared pest-free in 2012. The island is one of only nine completely pest-free islands in Fiordland and provides another buffer to Anchor Island, which is critical to the survival of kakapo.
See also
*List of islands of New Zealand
New Zealand consists of more than six hundred islands, mainly remnants of a larger land mass now beneath the sea. New Zealand is the seventh-largest island nation on earth, and the third-largest located entirely in the Southern Hemisphere. Th ...
* List of islands
This is a list of the lists of islands in the world grouped by country, by continent, by body of water
A body of water or waterbody (often spelled water body) is any significant accumulation of water on the surface of Earth or another plan ...
* Desert island
A desert island, deserted island, or uninhabited island, is an island, islet or atoll that is not permanently populated by humans. Uninhabited islands are often depicted in films or stories about shipwrecked people, and are also used as stereot ...
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