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Kōrero: Shrublands

Muttonbird scrub, Snares Island

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Muttonbird scrub, Snares Island

The tall shrub daisy Olearia lyallii dominates scrub and low forest on the Snares Islands, 105 kilometres south-west of Stewart Island. Known as muttonbird scrub, its interior is a mass of sprawling stems and roots, riddled with petrel (muttonbird) burrows.

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Department of Conservation

Reference: 10054942

by Tui De Roy

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Maggy Wassilieff, Shrublands – Mountain shrublands, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/14732/muttonbird-scrub-snares-island (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Maggy Wassilieff, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.