Anchor Island
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Anchor Island (Māori: Pukenui) is an island in Dusky Sound in Fiordland.
The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "large hill" for Pukenui.
The island was the site of the first anchorage made by the HMS Resolution in 1773 during James Cook's second voyage to New Zealand. Cook called the island Anchor Island, and the first anchorage site (which is the point furthest east on the island) was given the name Anchor Point. A small harbour on the southern side of the isl where Cook and his crew at crayfish was dubbed Luncheon Cove.
The island is situated southwest of the much larger Resolution Island in the inlet area of Dusky Sound and surrounded by many smaller islands and contains four small lakes, including Lake Kirirua, the largest lake on an island in Fiordland.
The island is part of the Fiordland National Park and since 2005 is one of few island sanctuaries that are home to the critically endangered kākāpō.
Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.