Little Barrier Island

Little Barrier Iceland or Hauturu lies off the northeast coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is located 80 km north of Auckland. The island is separated from the west by the Jellicoe Channel from the mainland, on the east by the Cradock Channel of the larger island of Great Barrier Iceland. The two islands protect the Hauraki Gulf in large part from the storms of the Pacific.

The island is an extinct andesitic volcanic cone, which has an approximately circular cross-section of about 6 km in diameter. It has an area of about 28 km ². He grew to be eruptions in the shallow coastal waters of the Hauraki Gulf during the last half a million years and has no connection to other volcanic rocks in the 120 km radius. The island has steep slopes and is highly dissected by the 722 m high Mount Hauturu outgoing incisions.

The island is uninhabited except for the replaced regularly conservationist and one of the most important nature reserves in New Zealand. Access is therefore highly restricted.

The island was, according to tradition named by the Polynesian explorers Toi as Hauturu ( roughly " resting place of the winds "). Got its name, the island together with her neighbor on November 23, 1769 by James Cook.

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• Little Barrier Iceland - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand ( English)