Pourewa Island lies in
Tolaga Bay
Tolaga Bay () is both a bay and small town on the East Coast, New Zealand, East Coast of New Zealand's North Island located 45 kilometres northeast of Gisborne, New Zealand, Gisborne and 30 kilometres south of Tokomaru Bay.
The region around th ...
, just offshore from Cook's Cove in New Zealand.
It was formerly known as Spöring Island, named by
Lt. James Cook after the Finnish draughtsman
Herman Spöring, a member of the scientific detachment aboard
HM Bark ''Endeavour'', and in 1990 a rock was taken from Pourewa Island to Spöring's birthplace in
Turku
Turku ( ; ; , ) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Southwest Finland. It is located on the southwestern coast of the country at the mouth of the Aura River (Finland), River Aura. The population of Turku is approximately , while t ...
(Åbo), Finland, where it forms part of a monument which was erected there
Te Ara entry
/ref> to commemorate the first Finn to land in New Zealand, in 1769.
It is also sometimes known as Loisel's Island, after Henri Loisel who took up a sheep farm at Waihau Bay to the south, and is said to have kept a yacht moored there, but is again officially known by its original Māori name, ''Pourewa''.
See also
* List of islands of New Zealand
New Zealand consists of more than six hundred islands, mainly remnants of Zealandia, a larger land mass now beneath the sea. New Zealand is the List of island countries#UN member states and states with limited recognition, sixth-largest island ...
* List of islands
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* Desert island
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References
Uninhabited islands of New Zealand
Landforms of the Gisborne District
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