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Green Island (Okaihe)
Green Island is a small, uninhabited island lying 2 km off the coast of the Otago Region of New Zealand, some 13 km south-west of the city of Dunedin. The island's Māori name is Okaihe.
==History==
Green Island may be the 'Isle of Wight' where the Sydney sealer ''Brothers'', chartered by Robert Campbell and sailing under Robert Mason, dropped eight men of a gang of eleven in November 1809. William Tucker, who later settled at Whareakeake (Murdering Beach) near Otago Heads, was in the gang. Alternatively the 'Isle of Wight' may be Taieri Island a few kilometres to the south. It has also been suggested that, alternatively, Green Island may be the 'Ragged Rock' where the other three men of the ''Brothers'' gang were landed. Some of the men claimed to have stayed on these two islands from 9 November 1809 until 20 December 1810.〔Peter Entwisle, ''Taka: a Vignette Life of William Tucker 1784-1817'', Dunedin, NZ: Port Daniel Press, 2005, p.54 & pp.110-115.〕
Green Island used to be called St Michael's Mount, suggesting it had been named after the island of that name off the Cornish coast. It is more likely it was so named after Tommy Chaseland's mother ship the ''St Michael'' when he was sealing there in the 1820s. He told Edward Shortland he lost a boat and all its hands when it was dashed on the island while trying to land. He stayed alone overnight and was picked up by another boat the following day.〔Edward Shortland,'' The Southern Districts of New Zealand; a Journal'', London, UK: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1851 reprinted by Capper Press, Christchurch, 1974, pp.153-4.〕
In the 1880s the island was mined for guano, bird dung used as fertiliser.
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