Whangaokeno / East Island is a small ()
[East Island / Whangaokeno]
Rodent Invasion Project, Department of Statistics, University of Auckland. Retrieved 1 December 2009. island
An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...
approximately east of
East Cape
East Cape is the easternmost point of the main islands of New Zealand. It is located at the northern end of the Gisborne District of New Zealand's North Island. It can also refer to the broader Gisborne cape.
East Cape was originally named "C ...
in the
North Island
The North Island, also officially named Te Ika-a-Māui, is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the larger but much less populous South Island by the Cook Strait. The island's area is , making it the world's 14th-largest ...
of
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...
. Reaching an elevation of ,
[ it was the original location for the ]East Cape Lighthouse
East Cape Lighthouse is a lighthouse sited on Otiki Hill above East Cape, the easternmost point on the North Island of New Zealand. , which was built in 1900. However, the island is prone to earthquakes
An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth resulting from a sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes can range in intensity, from ...
and its steep cliffs cause numerous landslide
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s. By 1920, the danger to the lighthouse was considered great enough to trigger a decision to move the lighthouse to the mainland. In 1922, the lighthouse was extinguished and relocated to its current position.
On 10 June 2019, the name of the island was officially gazetted as Whangaokeno / East Island.East Cape Lighthouse
East Cape Lighthouse is a lighthouse sited on Otiki Hill above East Cape, the easternmost point on the North Island of New Zealand. .
File:01 east coast East Island.jpg, East Island seen from the bottom of the Otiki Hill
See also
* New Zealand outlying islands
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* List of islands of New Zealand
New Zealand consists of more than six hundred islands, mainly remnants of a larger land mass now beneath the sea. New Zealand is the seventh-largest island nation on earth, and the third-largest located entirely in the Southern Hemisphere. T ...
* List of islands
This is a list of the lists of islands in the world grouped by country, by continent, by body of water
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* Desert island
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References
Uninhabited islands of New Zealand
Landforms of the Gisborne District
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