Mana Island - Wellington, New Zealand - Outhouses on Waymarking.com

One of Wellington’s oldest preserved marine terraces. Formed during an interglacial period 200,000 years ago, it now sits 398 feet above sea level at its higher northern end and 291 feet at the south end.

Mana has seen many changes in its colourful history, from emerging up from the sea, Kupe’s visit, early Maori settlement & European visits and the later whalers, John Bell’s 1st farming efforts, John Wright and the Vellas long association with farming the island, the Gault family and then the Ruakura research and quarantine station that suffered from the Scrapie disease, which saw five years of strict quarantine regulations placed for fear of the disease spreading. With the guide of the Department of Conservation, the Island, now in its reverse mode. It will again become as once it was prior to human settlement.

The Island boasts its shelter to many living insects, reptiles, birds, plant life, and in its surrounding waters, the abundant sea life. The Island’s giant weta, deinacrida rugosa is believed to be the world’s heaviest insect. The MacGregor Skink can be found in the shingle about the beaches and the gold stripe gecko can be found in the flaxes in the wet land and 39 bird species exist about the island. Which are given the extra change of survival in their rodent free domain. The endangered cooks scurvy grass, ngaio, taupata, manuka, kanuka all make up Mana’s certain future.

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Date Logged Log User Rating   09/05/2015 waiiti20 visited it