Madeleine, There was obviously a huge amount of nostalgia among the emigrants from Scotland generally. I live in an area of New Zealand that was colonised principally by Scots and although much of the early survey work in the area was done by an Englishman J.T.Thomson, he was attached formerly to Marischal College in Aberdeen as well as Edinburgh University. As the colonisation of this part of the country was funded by the Free Church of Scotland, it is perhaps not surprising that there is a distinct Scottish bias. One Buteman who did however contribute to the spread of names was John Tiffin Stewart, born Rothesay 12.12.1827, graduated as a civil engineer Glasgow. He was involved in surveying on the Victorian goldfields before moving to Auckland NZ. He later became, in 1858, assistant surveyor in the native land purchase dept. of the provincial government. I believe that Rothesay Bay in Auckland was one of his namings. (As I have not been to either bay yet, I cannot give a comparison of their appearances.) One I am certain of however is yet another Mount Stewart, this one near the city of Palmerston North. It is a trig. station named not after himself but after Mountstuart, as the surrounding countryside reminded him of that place. (J.T. was my G. Grandfathers cousin and they corresponded regularly throughout the later part of the 1800s.) Bill McK in NZ