Mangere Island
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| Waters | South pacific | |
| Archipelago | Chatham Islands | |
| Geographical location | 44 ° 26 ′ S , 176 ° 29 ′ W | |
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| surface | 1.13 square kilometers | |
| Highest elevation | Whakapa 292 m |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
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Mangere Island is a small island that belongs to the Chatham Islands , which are spread over a total sea area of around 7000 km². The island is located around 650 km southeast of the North Island of New Zealand and around 860 km east of Christchurch . The island is uninhabited. Politically, it belongs to the Chatham Islands Territory , the smallest administrative unit in New Zealand.
Mangere Island and the adjacent Little Mangere Island are the eroded remains of an extinct volcano from the Pliocene . The island's highest point, Whakapa, is 292 meters above sea level.
The island was forested until the 1890s when it was cut down to make grazing land for sheep. Rabbits and later cats also came to the island as part of agricultural use. Agricultural use ended in 1966, and the New Zealand government had the island bought up and designated as a nature reserve. The last sheep were brought from the island in 1968, since then attempts have been made to regenerate the island's fauna and flora. Several bird species endemic to the Chatham Islands have since been reintroduced to the island. The reintroduced birds include the Chatham flycatcher , which remains one of the rarest birds in the world. It is also home to the Chatham plover again .
literature
- Christian Nau: The Island Lexicon - All Islands in the World . Heel Verlag, Königswinter 2003, ISBN 3-89880-220-5 .
- David Butler, Don Merton: The Black Robin: Saving the World's Most Endangered Bird. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1992, ISBN 0-19-558260-8 (English).
Web links
- Homepage. Chatham Island Council, accessed May 1, 2017 .
- Chatham Islands - Natural Heritage. Kiwi Favorites, accessed on May 1, 2017 (English, blog with various articles on the topic).
- Homepage. Chatham Island Taiko Trust, accessed June 1, 2017 .
Single receipts
- ^ David Attenborough; The Life of Birds . BBC, 1998, ISBN 0563-38792-0 . P. 304