Island Bay, Wellington 6023, New Zealand 

Island Bay is a coastal suburb of Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, situated 5 km south of the city centre. Island Bay lies on the bay which shares its name, one of numerous small bays off Cook Strait and west of Lyall Bay. Island Bay, Wellington’s most southerly suburb, is named for the island of Taputeranga, which dominates the bay. … In the 1880s, farmland at Island Bay was subdivided for housing. Around the same time Italian fishermen settled there, forming a distinctive enclave.

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