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… which does not venture into southern waters. The African Cape gannet ( Morus capensis ) appears infrequently in Australian and New … are three accessible mainland breeding colonies – at Cape Kidnappers, Muriwai and Farewell Spit. There are also 21 …
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Part of story: Gannets and boobies
… Waimārama Coastal settlement south of Cape Kidnappers. Waimārama and the surrounding district had a … Beach Small settlement and popular swimming beach between Cape Kidnappers and Waimārama. Much of the land at the …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay places
… beans, peas, turnips and wheat. That same year, south of Cape Kidnappers, Cook gave the Māori chief Tuanui roots and … in 1777. In 1773 he gave roosters and hens to Māori near Cape Kidnappers, and left two hens and three cocks in Queen …
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Part of story: Kai Pākehā – introduced foods
… The Clifton station homestead is a local landmark. The Cape Kidnappers gannet reserve is accessed via the beach from … of a gift from John, Bernard and Mason Chambers in 1927. Cape Kidnappers Significant landmark and gannet reserve at …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay places
… from the coast. There are accessible gannet colonies at Cape Kidnappers, Muriwai Beach and Farewell Spit. Little penguins …
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Part of story: Seabirds – overview
… – the crescent of Hawke Bay between Māhia Peninsula and Cape Kidnappers, and the long, mostly straight, coast between Cape Kidnappers and Cape Turnagain to the south. Both have … Landscape and climate …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay region
… whale, Ruamano, out of the Keteketerau outlet on his way to Cape Kidnappers. …
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Part of story: Te whānau puha – whales
… outlook that shows the diversity of the Hawke’s Bay landscape. There are ranges, hills and plains, watched over by … the eastern coast and hill country that stretches south to Cape Turnagain. Māui’s fish hook In Māori mythology, Cape Kidnappers is the hook of the jaw bone Māui used to haul up …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay region
… north in search of a suitable anchorage and rounded North Cape on 17 December, in a storm which had blown James Cook , …
Type: Biography
… Ngāti Hāwea, killing many. Te Moananui himself only just escaped the slaughter. Now that Hungahunga's death had been … landlord of the whaling station at Rangaika, just south of Cape Kidnappers. His relations with the missionary William …
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… Mascarin sailed from Mauritius in October 1771, called at Cape Town, then headed east. After making landfall at New Zealand’s Cape Egmont, he sailed around the top of the North Island. A … Admiralty Bay. He went on to examine the east coast from Cape Campbell to Whangārei Harbour, a journey that took …
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Part of story: European discovery of New Zealand
… Kahungunu in the Ahuriri (Napier) area moved to Māhia to escape the raids of a large force of Waikato, Ngāti Raukawa, … was taken prisoner at Te Pakake pā, but managed to escape to Māhia. In 1835 Te Hāpuku was a signatory to the … at Māhia, Te Wairoa, Tāngōio, Pētane-Heipipi and Cape Kidnappers, mainly on land leased from Māori. Around the …
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Part of story: Ngāti Kahungunu
… at sites around Northland were: Kurahaupō – near North Cape Ngātokimatawhaorua – Hokianga Māmari – Ōmāmari and the …
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Part of story: Northland region
… an intensive study of the gannets on the rocky promontory, Cape Kidnappers. A lecture illustrated with Horace's …
Type: Biography
… work. Thelma Kent had an affinity for the New Zealand landscape and the outdoors. She spent several months of the year … which referred to a photograph she had taken of gannets at Cape Kidnappers as ‘a wonderful rendering of the tones not only …
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… leaving his footprints, which can be seen today – one at Cape Kidnappers in Hawke’s Bay, another at Whangawehi at Māhia, …
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Part of story: East Coast region
… New Zealand golf courses featured in the world’s top 100 – Cape Kidnappers, set on cliffs overlooking Hawke’s Bay (at number …
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Part of story: Golf
… standard, such as Kauri Cliffs in Northland and Cape Kidnappers in Hawke’s Bay. Velodromes In the 19th century …
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Part of story: Sports venues
… winter home and feeding ground for migratory wading birds. Cape Kidnappers hosts the largest mainland gannet colony in New …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay region
… the best-known colonies being at Muriwai (near Auckland), Cape Kidnappers in Hawke’s Bay and on Farewell Spit. Gannets …
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Part of story: Seabirds – overview