Auckland Islands Marine Reserve
The Auckland Islands Motu Maha Marine Reserve is the second largest marine reserve in New Zealand. It covers the reproductive area of southern right whales (English Southern Right Whale ), originally from the family of Right Whales, the New Zealand sea lions and yellow-eyed penguins (English: Yellow-eyed Penguin) from. It is almost identical with the Auckland Islands Marine Mammal Sanctuary ( sanctuary of marine mammals).
Geography
The Auckland Islands Motu Maha Marine Reserve lies between 50 ' 16 ' and 51 ' 19 " south latitude and between 165 ' 32 " and 166 ' 39 " east longitude in the southern Pacific Ocean, some 460 km south of the South Island of New Zealand away. With a radius of 12 nautical miles circling the Aucklandinseln, covering a sea area of about 494,000 ha. The protected sea area here has depths of up to 3,000 m, but mostly between 50 and 200 m.
History
The archipelago of the Aucklandinseln were discovered in 1806 by the whaler Abraham Bristow. This was followed by sealers, two settlement attempts and the Southern Whale Fishery Company, but in 1854 gave up their whaling station on the islands. After that, the archipelago was uninhabited again. Until the early 20th century, the Aucklandinseln got through spectacular shipwrecks on their coasts attention, see shipwrecks.
On 22 March 1993, the lake area was declared as the Aucklandinseln the Auckland Islands Marine Mammal Sanctuary. Ten years later, on 15 December 2003, followed by Regulation Marine Reserve ( Auckland Islands Motu Maha ) Order 2003, a nearly congruent area around the islands to declare marine protected area. Both protected areas fall within the jurisdiction of the Department of Conservation.
Today
Access to the marine reserve and to the islands is now heavily regulated and only permitted under certain conditions scientists and cruise ships. Permits issued exclusively by the Department of Conservation.
Wildlife
The Aucklandinseln harbor a wealth of diverse seabirds, are a hotbed of New Zealand sea lions, of which an inventory 11600-15200 is still suspected, and give almost a third of global Yellow-eyed Penguin stock a home. The Southern Right Whales, almost extinct through unconditional year in the last century, have been able to increase its holdings to about 90 copies back through the establishment of protection zones. They bring over the winter months their descendants in the shallow waters of Port Ross, a larger fjord in the north of Auckland Iceland, to the world. A wealth of Arrow Squid (squid ), Blue Moki, who came from the kind of trumpet perch, dense underwater kelp forest and an abundance of crustaceans, give the animals put under protection ideal living conditions for their nature and their stock to get.