Pourewa Island lies in Tolaga Bay, just offshore from Cook's Cove in New Zealand.
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Location | Gisborne Region |
Coordinates | 38°23′S 178°21′E / 38.383°S 178.350°E |
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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 (Åbo), Finland, where it forms part of a monument which was erected there[1] to commemorate the first Finn to land in New Zealand, in 1769.
It is also sometimes known as Loisel's Island[citation needed], 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.
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38°23′S 178°21′E / 38.383°S 178.350°E