Center Island (Foveaux Strait)
| Center Island | ||
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| Waters | Foveauxstrasse / Tasmansee | |
| Geographical location | 46 ° 27 ′ S , 167 ° 51 ′ E | |
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| surface | 86 ha | |
| Highest elevation | 75 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Center Island ( Māori Raratoka Island ) is an 86-acre island at the western end of the Foveaux Strait off the south coast of New Zealand's South Island . It is located 25 km north of the northernmost point of Stewart Island , Black Rock Point, and 15 km southwest of the town of Riverton in the Southland region .
The island is surrounded by several rock reefs, the most important of which are the Escape Reefs 5 km east of the island and Hapuka Rock, 2 km southwest.
The Māori name for the island is an analogy to the South Sea island of Rarotonga and is the form of the dialects of the Māori of the South Island for the same word "under the south" or "south wind".
Because of its remote location, Center Island is used as a nature reserve by the Department of Conservation , which released endangered birds here in 2006 after the rats were exterminated . On the uninhabited island is the Center Island Lighthouse and an airplane landing strip.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Reed New Zealand Atlas 2004. Auckland: Reed Books. Card 108
- ^ Edward Stewart Dollimore, Bernard John Foster: Maori Place Names . In: Alexander Hare McLintock (Ed.): An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand . Wellington 1966 ( online [accessed December 15, 2015]).
- ^ AW Reed: Place names of New Zealand. AH & AW Reed, Wellington 1975. ISBN 0-589-00933-8
- ↑ Endangered Species . Terra Nature Trust. July 2, 2008. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
- ↑ JP McClelland: Eradication of Pacific rats (Rattus exulans) from Whenua Hou Nature Reserve (Codfish Island), Putauhinu and Rarotoka Islands, New Zealand in CR Veitch, MN Clout (ed.): Turning the tide: the eradication of invasive species. IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group, IUCN, Gland (Switzerland) and Cambridge, 2002 pp. 173-181