Wharetana Bay

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Wharetana Bay
Waters Tamaki Strait
Land mass Waiheke Island
Geographical location 36 ° 48 '42 "  S , 175 ° 2' 23"  E Coordinates: 36 ° 48 '42 "  S , 175 ° 2' 23"  O
Wharetana Bay (New Zealand)
Wharetana Bay
width 300 m
depth 100 m

The Wharetana Bay is a small in the southwest of Waiheke Iceland and the region Auckland belonging Bay in New Zealand . It is important to the indigenous people of the region as some of its historical sites are in the bay. The first settlement of Waiheke Island by Europeans took place in the bay.

geography

The almost 300 m long bay is located in the south-western part of Waiheke Island and belongs to the arm-like Putiki Bay, which extends a good 3 km into the island . It is one of the four southern bays of the inlet. The Wharetana Bay joins eastwards the Okoka Bay and to the west the Oakura Bay on.

history

In the bay there are graves and clams of the originally indigenous population as well as buildings from the time of the first European settlement of Waiheke Island .

In 1845 the Belgian Charles de Witt , who was a member of the Auckland Council , settled in the bay. De Witt's descendants lived there until the 1980s. Remains of buildings, a mooring, a dam and the grave of the gardener von de Witt can be proven. The New Zealand Historic Places Trust (NZHPT), which is responsible for the state preservation of monuments in New Zealand, declared some archaeologically and historically valuable sites on the flat coast of the bay to be protected.

In October 2012, the population turned in a protest action against building on the historic site.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Bill - Wharetana Bay Development - Site Surrounda for Archaeological Sites . (PDF 5.6 MB) New Zealand Parliament , accessed on October 23, 2016 .
  2. Putiki Bay . In: NZ Topo Map . Land Information New Zealand , accessed October 23, 2016 .
  3. Controversy continues at historic Waiheke site . In: NewsHub . MediaWorks TV , October 1, 2012, accessed October 23, 2016 .