Arrow Rock, New Zealand

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Arrow Rock (also Fifeshire rock ) is a small rocky island in the belonging to the Tasman Bay Nelson Harbour off the coast of Nelson. A narrow channel separates the island of Haulashore Iceland. Before the emergence of Haulashore Iceland through the stitch ( " Cut" ) between it and the Boulder Bank, this was the entrance to Nelson Harbour.

The island received its official name of Arthur Wakefield on November 1, 1841, when his ship " Arrow" the passage between the rocks and Haulashore Iceland went through.

Your second name was given to the island after the shipwreck of the immigrant ship Fifeshire on 27 February 1842. The barque had brought settlers to Nelson and drove under balast with a pilot on board. Due to a sudden slump drove on the way back listless on the rocks. There were several other strandings and shipwrecks.

The entrance to Nelson Harbour at that time was possible only through this narrow passage between the Arrow Rock and Haulashore Iceland, which has been further limited by increasingly expansive sand bank. In order to save the harbor, therefore, a new access road, the " Cut" was dug, which opened on July 30, 1906 and has since been protected from the silting by regular dredging.

On the rock some Tüpfelscharben live.