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Unless something goes horribly wrong, Stewart Islanders aren’t actually born on Stewart Island.
The Scent of a Fisherman
Stewart Island in a bottle
Mason Bay marram
Mason Bay on the west coast of Stewart Island at about 47° south is arguably the most exposed beach in the country. Desperate westerlies regularly scream in here from the subantarctic and Southern Ocean. Little wonder that there is a vast swathe of dunes inland from the shore, and that farmers who once attempted to eke out a living here tried to stabilise the invading dunes with mar-ram grass. Now conservationists would like to see native plants replace the introduced marram...
