Английская Википедия:Cuvier Island
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Cuvier Island is a small uninhabited[1] island off the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It lies on the seaward end of the Colville Channel, Шаблон:Convert north of the Mercury Islands and approximately Шаблон:Convert south-east of Great Barrier Island. The Шаблон:Convert[2] island is a wildlife sanctuary, managed by the Department of Conservation and is the subject of an ongoing island restoration project to eliminate non-native mammals and restore the original ecosystem.[3] It is also the location of the Cuvier Island Lighthouse which was constructed in 1889 and the wreck of the old HMNZS Philomel which was scuttled near the island on 6 August 1949 after decommissioning and being stripped of useful equipment.
Geology
The island is the remains of an igneous intrusion of the Coromandel Volcanic Zone, which formed during the Miocene between 17 and 16 million years ago.[4]
Important Bird Area
The island has been identified as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International because of its small breeding colony of vulnerable Pycroft's petrels.[5]
Name
The Māori name of the island is Repanga. The name Cuvier was given by D'Urville, naming it after Baron Cuvier.[6]
See also
References
External links
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ At one time in the 1920s the wife of the Lighthouse Keeper was the nominated Protector of Tuatara Lizards which were found in numbers at the rear of the house.Cuvier Island restoration Шаблон:Webarchive (from the Department of Conservation website)
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ BirdLife International. (2012). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Cuvier Island (Repanga). Downloaded from Шаблон:Cite web on 2012-02-02.
- ↑ New Zealand Lighthouses - Cuvier Шаблон:Webarchive - named by D'Urville
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