Quail Island

Quail Island Otamahua in Maori, every now and then additionally called Te Kawakawa is a small uninhabited island within Lyttelton Harbour in the South Island of New Zealand, close to Christchurch. The island changed into given its European name with the aid of Captain William Mein Smith who saw local quail here in 1842; though they were already extinct by using 1875. 'tamahua' has the meaning of a 'location where children gather sea eggs'. 'Te Kawakawa' refers to the pepper trees determined on the island. Apparently uninhabited through the New Zealand local peoples, it turned into nonetheless regularly visited to gather shellfish,

flax, fowl's eggs in addition to stone for gear from King Billy Island, an outcrop just off Quail Island. Europeans in brief farmed it in 1851, earlier than it was turned into a quarantine station in 1875, and later right into a small leper colony from 1907 to 1925, at the same time as getting used as a sanatorium during the influenza epidemic of 1907. Replicas of dog kennels once used for education of the puppies utilized in Antarctic expeditions of the early 20th century and a replica leprosy patient's hut were constructed via students of Cathedral College, with the quarantine barracks additionally restored and moved to the beach front.