from the Cape of Good Hope to Behring Strait in the Old World, 
and from Behring Strait to Cape Horn in the New World. Such is 
the situation of “Young Albion of the Antipodal World.” 
Two arms of the sea, Cook Strait in the North (41° N. lat.) 
and Foveaux Strait in the South (4(5° 40' N. lat.) divide New Zea- 
land into three parts of different sizes; two larger islands, which 
for want of hotter names have been designated in geography as 
North Island and South Island; and a third, small island, favoured 
with the special name of Stewart's Island. 1 
The three islands constitute only parts of one and the same 
system of mountains, which running from South-West to North- 
east forms a distinctly marked line of elevation in the Pacific 
Ocean. This longitudinal line is crossed by a second almost at 
right angles, which is indicated by the direction of Foveaux and 
Cook Straits, but still more so by the direction of the long-stretched 
N. W. peninsula of North Island; 2 this N. W. peninsula corresponds 
to the line, striking to N. 52° W. , and designated by Dana 3 as 
the axis of the greatest depression in the Pacific Ocean. 
Dana observes that a line drawn from Pitcairn’s Island 
1 The usual denominations of the three islands were North, Middle and South 
Island. Hereby, however, the last named island was unjustly classed with the two 
larger islands; and it is certainly more proper to distinguish only the two principal 
islands as North Island and South Island , and to allow the third, small island to 
pass by the exclusive name of Stewart's Island. The latter denomination has of late 
been adopted as the more appropriate. 
The names New Ulster , New Munster , New Leinster (after the three Irish pro- 
vinces), officially introduced by the first governor, Captain Ilobson, which are s.'ll 
occasionally seen on maps, are now scarcely known to the colonists even as anti- 
quated reminiscences. The original names To lha-a-Maui , Te Wald Pun a mu (Cook 
wrote: La heino mauwc and Tar at Poenammoo; Dumont d'Urville: Ika Na Mari) 
and lialiiura were not made for European ears r id tongues. On the map appended 
to Po lack's work on New Zealand the name Victoria Island is suggested for South 
Island, and at the time the French thought of extending the dominion of their flag 
from Bank's pcnii ala over the whole of New Zealand, they named South Island 
; ka Nouvelle France''. The Chatham Islands, situated 400 sea-miles East of South 
Island, and the “Snares”, 00 sea-miles South of Stewart's Island are usually likewise 
numbered with New Zealand. 
2 The names of “North Island” and “South Island” being thus taken as proper 
names, will be used in this work without the pronoun. 
Dana, United States Expl. Expcd. Vol. X. pp. 394 — 395. 
