Cape Colville is the northernmost point of the
Coromandel Peninsula in
New Zealand's
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 ...
. It lies 85 kilometres north of
Thames, and 70 kilometres northeast of the city of
Auckland, on the other side of the
Hauraki Gulf. The small settlements of Port Jackson and Fletcher Bay lie immediately to the west and east respectively of the cape.
Great Barrier Island lies to the north of Cape Colville, separated from it by 20 kilometre width of the
Colville Channel. The tiny
Channel Island
The Channel Islands ( nrf, Îles d'la Manche; french: îles Anglo-Normandes or ''îles de la Manche'') are an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy. They include two Crown Dependencies: the Bailiwick of Jersey, ...
lies between the two.
Port Jackson
Port Jackson Bay, just to the south of the Cape, has been inhabited since at least the fifteenth century. At the south end of the Bay, at Port Jackson, a water-powered
flax mill
Flax mills are mills which process flax. The earliest mills were developed for spinning yarn for the linen industry.
John Kendrew (an optician) and Thomas Porthouse (a clockmaker), both of Darlington developed the process from Richard Arkwrigh ...
existed in 1901, when the population was 12. There is a camp site.
New Zealand dotterel
The New Zealand dotterel (''Charadrius obscurus'') is a species of shorebird found only in certain areas of New Zealand. It is also called the New Zealand plover or red-breasted dotterel, and its Māori names include , , and .
The southern s ...
breed locally.
Boneseed
''Osteospermum moniliferum'' (synonym ''Chrysanthemoides monilifera'') is an evergreen flowering shrub or small tree in the daisy family, Asteraceae. It is native to southern Africa, ranging through South Africa and Lesotho to Mozambique and Zim ...
is a local weed. Dune restoration with
spinifex was done from 2009 to 2011. There was much flooding in 2014.
See also
*
Moehau Range
References
Colville Colville may refer to:
Places
Canada
* Colville Lake (Northwest Territories), a lake in Northwest Territories
* Colville Lake, Northwest Territories, a settlement corporation
*Colville Range, a small mountain range in southwestern British Colu ...
Thames-Coromandel District
Rock formations of Waikato
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