Mou Waho is an island in
Lake Wānaka, New Zealand.
It is around the same size as the nearby
Mou Tapu, these two islands being the largest in the lake. The island contains a small lake, called Arethusa Pool.
Buff weka on the island are predators of much of the native wildlife including
mountain stone wētā,
cave wētā
The orthopteran family Rhaphidophoridae of the suborder Ensifera has a worldwide distribution. Common names for these insects include cave wētā, cave crickets, camelback crickets, camel crickets, Hogan bugs, spider crickets (sometimes shorten ...
, and Southern Alps geckos. For this reason students of the local
Mount Aspiring College built 40 small wooden ''motels'' for these animals to safely live in.
See also
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Desert island
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List of islands
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Recursive islands and lakes
A recursive island or lake is an island or a lake that lies within a lake or an island.
For the purposes of defining recursion, small continental land masses such as Madagascar and New Zealand count as islands, while large continental land masses ...
References
Uninhabited islands of New Zealand
Islands of Otago
Lake islands of New Zealand
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