MIA – Minor Islands Award
The Minor Islands Award is awarded for contacts with or from minor islands off the New Zealand coast. For example, Kapiti Island, Portland Island, Great Barrier Island, Little Barrier Island, Waiheke Island, D’Urville Island, Rangitoto Island, Kawau Island, and Motutapu Island. There are currently 141 islands on the list. Other minor islands may be acceptable at the Award Manager’s discretion.
- Contact with 5 different islands is required. Endorsements for ten, twenty, or thirty islands.
- Stations operating from minor islands must work a minimum of 5 New Zealand stations from 5 different islands. 25 contacts in total. Endorsements for operating from ten, twenty, or thirty islands.
- Islands which are connected to the mainland by a causeway and rocks covered by water at high tide are not eligible. Islands in rivers or lakes are not eligible.
- The ‘island’ station must be located on the island, or on a boat tied to a mooring, wharf, jetty, or anchorage adjacent to the island.
- The award is for working stations located on or nearby the small islands around the New Zealand coastline, including islands in harbours, sounds and fiords. The list includes Stewart Island but excludes ZL0, ZL8, ZL9 and other islands that have their own DXCC identifier
List of islands valid for Minor Islands Award
- Adele Island
- Aiguilles Island
- Alderman Islands
- Allports Island Cuvier Island
- Amerikiwhati Island
- Anatakupu Island
- Anchor Island
- Anchorage Island
- Aorangaia Island
- Araara Island
- Arakaninihi Island
- Arapaoa Island
- Aroha Island
- Awarua Rock
- Bare Island
- Bauza Island
- Bells Island
- Bench Island
- Bests Island
- Big South Cape Island
- Blumine Island
- Breaksea Island
- The Brothers
- Browns Island
- Calliope Island, Whangarei Heads
- Catherine Island, Charles Sound
- Cavalli Islands
- Chalky Island
- Coal Island
- Codfish Island/Whenuahou
- Cooper Island
- Cuvier Island
- Dog Island
- D’Urville Island
- Dragon Island
- East Island/Whangaokeno
- Eleanor Island, Charles Sound
- Elizabeth Island
- Fanny Island, Charles Sound
- Fisherman Island
- Forsyth Island
- Frenchman Island, Whangarei Heads
- Gannet Island
- Goat Island, Auckland
- Goat Island, Otago
- Goat Island/Te Mapoutahi
- Great Barrier Island/Aotea
- Great Island
- Green Island
- Guano Island, Whangarei
- Hen and Chicken Islands
- High Island
- Herald Island, Waitematā Harbour
- Indian Island
- Kaikoura Island
- Kapiti Island
- Kawau Island
- King Billy Island
- Kopuahingahinga Island, Manukau Harbour
- Little Barrier Island (Hauturu)
- Long Island, Marlborough
- Long Island, Southland
- Mahurangi Island (Goat Island)
- Makaro/Ward Island
- Mana Island
- Matakana Island
- Matiu/Somes Island
- Maud Island/Te Hoiere
- Mauitaha Island, Whangarei Heads
- Mayor Island/Tuhua
- Mercury Islands
- Mokohinau Islands
- Mokopuna Island
- Motiti Island
- Motueka Island (Pigeon Island)
- Motuhoa Island
- Motuihe Island
- Motukaroro Island
- Motukawao Islands
- Motukiore Island, Parua Bay
- Motunau Island
- Motuoroi Island
- Moturaka Island
- Moturata/Taieri Island
- Motutapu Island
- Moutohora Island/Whale Island
- Native Island
- Ngarango Otainui Island, Manukau Harbour
- Ninepin Rock, Manukau Harbour
- Noble Island
- North Island
- Opahekeheke Island
- Open Bay Islands
- Pakatoa Island
- Pararekau Island, Manukau Harbour
- Pearl Island
- Piercy Island
- Ponui Island
- Poor Knights Islands
- Portland Island
- Pourewa Island
- Puketutu Island, Manukau Harbour
- Putauhinu Island
- Quail Island
- Quarantine Island/Kamau Taurua
- Rabbit Island
- Rakino Island
- Rangitoto Island,Hauraki
- Rangitoto Islands, Marlborough Sounds
- Raratoka Island
- Resolution Island
- Ripapa Island
- Rotoroa Island
- Rurima Island
- Ruapuke Island
- Secretary Island
- Shark Island, Manukau Harbour
- Slipper Island
- South Island
- Stephens Island/Takapourewa
- Stewart Island/Rakiura
- Sugar Loaf Islands
- Takangaroa Island
- Tapu Te Ranga Motu
- Tarahiki Island
- Tarakanahi Island
- Tata Islands
- Tikitiki Island BoP
- Tiritiri Matangi Island
- Titi/Muttonbird Islands
- Tonga Island
- Ulva Island
- Urupukapuka Island
- Waiheke Island
- Walker Island
- Watchman Island, Waitematā Harbour
- Whakaari/White Island
- Whanganui Island
- White Island (Otago)
- Wiroa Island, Manukau Harbour
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_of_New_Zealand#Listed_by_size