Titi Islands

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Titi Islands or Muttonbird Islands , officially Titi / Muttonbird Islands , is the name for five not directly connected groups of islands near Stewart Island / Rakiura in the extreme south of New Zealand . Administratively, they belong to the Southland region .

The northeast group lies in the Foveaux Strait northeast of Stewart Island, between this island and Ruapuke Island . A small group to the east, south of the Eastern Cape of Stewart Island, is also called the Breaksea Islands . The Boat Group is located near the coast in the southwest of Stewart Island . A little further west Mokiti / Little Moggy Island and Mokinui / Big Moggy Island. Another group of islands around Taukihepa / Big South Cape Island is about eight kilometers south . Some other islands south and east of Stewart Island are sometimes counted among the Muttonbird Islands.

The islands are not permanently inhabited. They got their name because of the traditional harvesting of shearwaters ( māori Titi; English : Muttonbird) by the Māori April 1 to May 31 The right to harvest the shearwater chicks is - with a few exceptions - reserved by law to the Rakiura Māori.

In May 2006, the Kotuku fishing boat capsized near Womens Island , killing six people.

Island collections

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  • in the Foveaux Strait ( 46 ° 51 ′  S , 168 ° 14 ′  E ): u. a. North Island, Womens Island, Motunui / Edwards Island, Pukeokaoka / Jacky Lee Island, Herekopare (Te Marama), as well as Kanetetoe Island, the Bunker Islets and Fish Rock.
  • Breaksea Islands ( 47 ° 6 ′  S , 168 ° 12 ′  E ): u. a. Rukawahakura Island, Takawini Island, Potuatua Island, Pomatakiarehua Island, Kaihuka Island and Wharepuaitaha Island.
  • Boat Group ( 47 ° 8 '  S , 167 ° 33'  O ): Big Iceland, Iceland Kundy, Betsy Iceland, Goose Iceland, Iceland and advice Timore Iceland / Chimneys.
  • Mokiti / Little Moggy Iceland and Mokinui / Big Moggy Iceland ( 47 ° 8 '  S , 167 ° 25'  O )
  • Southwest chain ( 47 ° 13 '  S , 167 ° 23'  O ) to Taukihepa / Big South Cape Iceland are grouped u. a. Kaimohu Island, Potouma Island, Pukaparara Island, Putauhina Island, Pukeweka Island, Tamaitemioka Island and Pohowaitai Island as well as the Putauhina Nuggets

In addition, Pihore Island, Weka Island and Tia / Entrance Island in the east of Stewart Island as well as Moromamae / Owen Island, Kaninihi Island, Ernest Island, Kopeka Island and The Brothers off the south coast of Stewart Island are occasionally counted among the Titi Islands.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Decisions of The New Zealand Geographic Board . Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) , October 18, 2001, archived from the original on September 6, 2010 ; accessed on January 17, 2016 (English).
  2. ↑ LINZ50 cartographic work for New Zealand, map CJ07-CK07
  3. ↑ Titi - muttonbirding - Muttonbirding in New Zealand In: Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. March 2, 2009.
  4. ↑ Titi (Muttonbird) Islands Regulations 1978. Reprinted January 3, 2008.
  5. ↑ Kotuku Tragedy Highlights Decaying Fleet . In: Professional Skipper . 63, May / June, 2007, pp.  80–81 (English, skipper.co.nz ( Memento from February 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 360 kB ; accessed on January 17, 2016]).
  6. ↑ Tītī - muttonbirding - Rakiura (Stewart Island) and the Tītī Islands. Map In: Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. March 2, 2009.