Resolution Island, New Zealand

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Resolution Iceland is the largest island in Fiordland in the southwest of New Zealand. It is 208 km ² the fifth largest island of New Zealand and uninhabited. Resolution Iceland is separated from the South Island by the Dusky Sound and the Breaksea sound.

The island is approximately rectangular, with the exception of a long, narrow peninsula on the west coast, the Five Fingers Peninsula.

The island was in 2004 selected as one of the designated as a nature reserve islands where introduced species be eradicated in order to protect native birds and to resettle.

An attempt to do so was made ​​in 1894, when the Department of Lands and Survey Richard Henry made ​​to the curator of the island, which was then populated with birds such as kakapo and kiwis, which are threatened on the mainland by marten. This earlier attempt failed, as 1900, the ermine reached the island.

The island is named after James Cook's ship Resolution, which landed during Cook's second voyage in March 1773 at Dusky Sound.

Swell

• Susanne Hill, John Hill: Richard Henry of Resolution Iceland. John McIndoe, Dunedin, 1987, ISBN 0-86868-094- X.
• Kerry - Jayne Wilson: Flight of the Huia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch 2004, ISBN 0-908812-52-3.