Cape Kidnappers

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Cape Kidnappers
Cape Kidnappers, New Zealand.jpg
The cape seen from the north
Geographical location
Cape Kidnappers (New Zealand)
Cape Kidnappers
Coordinates 39 ° 39 ′  S , 177 ° 6 ′  E Coordinates: 39 ° 39 ′  S , 177 ° 6 ′  E
location Hastings District , Hawke's Bay , North Island
Waters Pacific Ocean
length 500 m
width 430 m
height 100 m

Cape Kidnappers is a cape in the Hastings District of Hawke's Bay region on the North Island of New Zealand .

geography

Cape Kidnappers is located around 20 km east of Hastings and around 20 km southeast of Napier , at the tip of a 5 km long and up to 4.5 km wide headland at the southwest end of Hawke Bay .

The cape can be reached from the settlement of Te Awanga on the coast of Hawke Bay via a very winding coastal road that ends on the plateau of the beacon.

history

The cape got its name in 1769 from the navigator and explorer Captain James Cook after local Māori had tried to kidnap a Tahitian boy who was on the Endeavor in a canoe. Cook's crew killed some Māori with gunfire so the boy could swim back to the ship and be rescued.

Cape Kidnappers Lighthouse

The Cape Kidnappers Lighthouse was located on a small plateau of the cape, around 450 m from the tip of the cape. It was built in 1876 and dismantled in 1948. Instead of the lighthouse, there is now an automated beacon on the square.

Gannet colony

With around 8,000 pairs, the Cape is home to the largest land-accessible gannet colony in the world. Australian boobies have been nesting on the Cape since the 1870s.

  • Gannet colony

  • Colony of gannets on a small plateau on the Cape

  • Boobies at courtship

Web links

Commons : Cape Kidnappers  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Topo maps . Land Information New Zealand , accessed June 28, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Cape Kidnappers Gannet Reserve . (PDF (890 kB)) Department of Conservation , accessed on January 15, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Lighthouse to an unpopular decision . In: Hawke's Bay Today . NZME. Publishing , November 13, 2016, accessed June 28, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Cape Kidnappers, NZ . Australian Lighthouses , accessed June 28, 2018 .
  5. ^ CP McMeekan, KA Wodzicki : The Gannet on Cape Kidnappers . In: Royal Society of New Zealand (ed.): Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . Volume 76 Part 3 . Wellington 1946, p.  429–452 (English, online [PDF; 3.6 MB ; accessed on June 28, 2018]).