page_title: Solander Islands
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Solander Islands / History
caption_attribution_description: English: View of the Solander Islands, south of New Zealand South Island, west of Stewart Island, drawn by Herman Spöring on HMB Endeavour, 1770
context_page_description: The Solander Islands are three close, uninhabited volcanic islets toward the western end of the Foveaux Strait just beyond New Zealand's South Island. The Māori name Hautere translates into English as "flying wind". The islands lie 38 km south of Prices Point, near where Lake Hakapoua drains through Big River to the ocean due west of Te Waewae Bay, and 64 km northwest of the Putatara Point in the northwest of Stewart Island, or 56 km from Codfish Island west of that place. The islands measure 1.2 km². Administratively, they are the only definitively non-inshore islands in a local government district — Southland District.
context_section_description: The island chain was sighted by Captain James Cook on 11 March 1770 and named by him after the Swedish naturalist Daniel Solander, one of the scientific crew aboard Cook's ship, Endeavour. 
  The islands are geographically forbidding and weather conditions often confound the approach of ships. It is perhaps for this reason that the islands have only ever been briefly inhabited, and then only due to shipwreck or other marooning. Five men - four Europeans and one Australian aboriginal - were marooned there between 1808 and 1813, the longest continual period of habitation. They are thought to have been left ashore in two groups for seal hunting (sealing), but the sea prevented the approach of any ship to recover them. In 1810, sealing moved to Macquarie Island, farther to the west, and they were effectively abandoned. When rediscovered in 1813, it is likely that they had amassed many dried seal pelts.
caption: View of the Solander Islands, drawn by Herman Spöring on HMB Endeavour, 1770
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