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Cape Colville is the northernmost point of the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand's North Island.[1] It lies 85 kilometres north of Thames, and 70 kilometres northeast of the city of Auckland, on the other side of the Hauraki Gulf. The small settlements of Port Jackson and Fletcher Bay lie immediately to the west and east respectively of the cape.
Great Barrier Island lies to the north of Cape Colville, separated from it by 20-kilometre width of the Colville Channel. The tiny Channel Island lies between the two.
Port Jackson
editPort Jackson Bay, just to the south of the Cape, has been inhabited since at least the fifteenth century.[2] At the south end of the Bay, at Port Jackson, a water-powered flax mill existed in 1901,[3] when the population was just 12.[4] There is a camp site.[5] New Zealand dotterel (Anarhynchus obscurus), a species of plover, breed locally.[6] Boneseed is a local weed.[7] Dune restoration with spinifex was done from 2009 to 2011.[8] There was much flooding in 2014.[9] Killer whales (orca) inhabit the waters offshore, where they specialise in hunting eagle rays.[10]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Place name detail: Cape Colville". New Zealand Gazetteer. New Zealand Geographic Board. Retrieved 25 March 2010.
- ^ "Search the List | Midden/ Artefacts, Port Jackson". www.heritage.org.nz. Archived from the original on 21 December 2019. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
- ^ "Flax Mill in Port Jackson in 1901". www.aucklandcity.govt.nz. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
- ^ "1901 census results". StatsNZ. Archived from the original on 16 December 2013.
- ^ "Port Jackson Campsite". www.doc.govt.nz. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
- ^ "Sites of importance to coastal and estuarine birds on the east coast of the Waikato region" (PDF). www.waikatoregion.govt.nz. November 2013. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 February 2020. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
- ^ "Waikato Regional Pest Management Plan Annual report 2018/19" (PDF). www.waikatoregion.govt.nz. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 February 2020. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
- ^ "Beachcare groups" (PDF). www.waikatoregion.govt.nz. 2011. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 February 2018. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
- ^ "COROMANDEL LIAISON ZONE SUBCOMMITTEE" (PDF). www.waikatoregion.govt.nz. 21 August 2014. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 February 2020. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
- ^ Bates, Mick (28 December 2022). "Orca Hunt New Zealand". YouTube.
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