Motuarohia Island
| Motuarohia Island | ||
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| Waters | Bay of Islands | |
| Geographical location | 35 ° 14 '3 " S , 174 ° 9' 53" E | |
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| length | 2.06 km | |
| width | 670 m | |
| surface | 83 ha | |
| Highest elevation | 78 m | |
Motuarohia Island (also Roberton Island ) is an island in the Bay of Islands in the Northland region on the North Island of New Zealand . It extends over two kilometers from east to west, is up to 670 meters wide and has an area of 83 hectares .
She is best known for the murder of five people on the island on November 20, 1841 by Wiremu Kingi Maketu . Maketu was subsequently sentenced to death and hanged. This was one of the events that led to the Flagstaff War a few years later .