Long Island (Marlborough)
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 41 ° 6 '57 " S , 174 ° 16' 48" O | |
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| length | 4 km | |
| width | 1 km | |
| surface | 1.41 km² | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Long Island is an island in Queen Charlotte Sound , one of the Marlborough Sounds in New Zealand . With a length of 4 km, it is only 1.41 km² in size. The island, oriented from northeast to southwest, has a maximum width of 1 km, hence the name. To the north is Motuara Island , which is about half the size , and to the southwest is an extension of Arapawa Island .
The island was reserved for public use. Shortly thereafter, 300–400 sheep began to be farmed on the island. This ended on January 14, 1926, when the island was declared a Scenic Reserve . After the rest of the cattle had been removed from the island in the 1930s, it was able to regenerate and was overgrown by bush. In April 1993, the Long Island-Kokomohua Marine Reserve was created around Long Island and the tiny Kokomohua Islands off their northern tip. This extends 460 m from the high water mark around the islands and was the first marine reserve on the South Island.
The island itself is also a nature reserve, where several threatened endemic bird species have been reintroduced, such as dwarf kiwi (late 1980s), jumping parakeet (2001), and Tieke (2005). These species were able to build healthy breeding populations on the island.
The island can only be reached by boat and has no overnight accommodation.
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- Information pages of the New Zealand Department of Conservation to island and marine reserve (English)
- Long Island-Kokomohua Marine Reserve / Long Island Scenic reserve , DOC information sheet