Bench Island

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Bench Island
Māori : Rarotoka
Waters southern pacific ocean
Geographical location 46 ° 54 '32 "  S , 168 ° 14' 24"  O Coordinates: 46 ° 54 '32 "  S , 168 ° 14' 24"  O
Bench Island (New Zealand)
Bench Island
length 1.77 km
width 1.77 km
Highest elevation 63  m
Residents uninhabited

Bench Island , knownas Rarotoka among the Māori , is an island east of Stewart Island and south of the South Island of New Zealand .

geography

The uninhabited island is located east of the entrance to Paterson Inlet ( Whaka a Te Wera ) from Stewart Island and around 7.5 km east of Oban , the only place on Stewart Island . Administratively, Bench Island is part of the Southland District of the Southland region .

Between The Neck Peninsula and Bench Island in the southwest is the 2.6 km wide Carter Passage and in the northeast of Bench Island is the Abbott Passage .

Flora and fauna

The island, which is overgrown with scrub and forest, is under protection and administered by the Department of Conservation . Barracudas , arrow squid and octopus live around the island . Among other things, they are prey for the New Zealand fur seals that live on the island .

literature

  • DL Poppelwell : Notes on a Botanical Visit to Coll or Bench Island (Stewart Island) . In: Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand . Volume 50 , 1918, pp. 158–159 (English, online [PDF; 130 kB ; accessed on July 13, 2018]).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Walrond : Stewart Island / Rakiura . In: Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand . Ministry for Culture & Heritage , May 13, 2015, accessed July 13, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Topo maps . Land Information New Zealand , accessed July 13, 2018 .
  3. ^ In the "Stewart Island / Rakiura Conservation Management Strategy and Rakiura National Park Management Plan 2011-2021" . Department of Conservation , accessed July 13, 2018 .
  4. ↑ James Holborow : The Diet of New Zealand Fur Seals (Arctocephalus forsteri) in Southern New Zealand. . (No longer available online.) November 1999, archived from the original on October 19, 2008 ; accessed on January 14, 2016 (English, original website no longer available).