Pourewa Island

Pourewa Iceland is a 42 acre island on the southern edge of the Tolaga Bay on the East Coast of the North Island of New Zealand.

Will provide you with the opposite Mitre Rocks access to Cook 's Cove is, the bay, where the navigator and explorer Captain James Cook on October 23, 1769 the Bark Endeavour at anchor went to take fresh water and provisions. The island was formerly known as Spöring Iceland. This name was given to her by Captain Cook in honor of the Finnish artist and naturalist Herman Spöring. Spöring was a member of the crew on board and on secondment with the Royal Society on the expedition.

From Cook's traditions is known that the island was inhabited, and from Māori sources it is known that Hinematioro had lived a superscript and famous woman there. She died in 1823. 1885 was a carved figure who served as the post cladding for a house, found in the mud. Locals Māori arranged this figure Hinematioro 's at home. Another piece of evidence is found in Tuebingen Institute of Ethnology. It was said to be the gift of Hinematioro to the botanist Joseph Banks, who was in October 1769 aboard the Endeavour.

In 1990, a piece of rock of the island in a monument in Spörings birthplace Åbo was incorporated in Finland. This Spöring was honored as the first Finn, who had set foot on New Zealand soil.