Mangere Island (Moriori: Maung’ Rē)[1] is part of the Chatham Islands archipelago, located about 800 kilometres (500 mi) east of New Zealand's South Island and has an area of 113 hectares (279 acres).[2] The island lies off the west coast of Pitt Island, 45 kilometres (28 mi) south-east of the main settlement in the Chathams, Waitangi, on Chatham Island.
Mangere and nearby Tapuaenuku (Little Mangere) are the eroded remains of an ancient volcano of Pliocene age. Whakapa, the island's highest point, is 292 metres (958 ft) above sea level.
Forested until the 1890s, the island was largely cleared for sheep grazing. Rabbits and then cats were also introduced but later died out.[3] Farmed until 1966, the island was then purchased by the New Zealand government and gazetted as a Nature Reserve.[4] The last sheep were removed in 1968 and restoration of the island started in 1973 and is ongoing. Several endemic Chatham Island bird species have since been reintroduced to the island, Chatham snipe in 1970, black robin[5] in 1976, Chatham tomtit in 1987 and shore plover in the 1990s.
^Moriori; The Trustees of the Moriori Imi Settlement Trust; The Crown. "Deed of Settlement of Historical Claims" (PDF). Office of Treaty Settlements. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
^"Data Table - Protected Areas - LINZ Data Service (recorded area 112.9073 ha)". Land Information New Zealand. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
^Taylor, Barry (2010). Rails: A Guide to Rails, Crakes, Gallinules and Coots of the World. A&C Black. p. 264. ISBN 978-1-4081-3537-2.
^Mangere Island restoration Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine (from the Department of Conservation website)
^Attenborough, D. 1998. The Life of Birds. p. 304. BBC ISBN 0563-38792-0
MangereIsland (Moriori: Maung’ Rē) is part of the Chatham Islands archipelago, located about 800 kilometres (500 mi) east of New Zealand's South Island...
Little Mangere is a small island of the Chatham Archipelago, just off the western end of MangereIsland, about 4 km (2½ mi) west of Pitt Island and 45...
and it became extinct on the main island of the Chatham group before 1871, being restricted to Little MangereIsland thereafter. The first mention of the...
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islands in the Chatham Islands group-Mangere and Little MangereIslands, which are only 112ha and 16ha respectively. Massive deforestation of Mangere...
to the Chatham Islands. It was historically known only from MangereIsland, but fossils have been found on Pitt Island and Chatham Island as well. Its closest...
glossed in purplish or steel-blue. It was last observed in 1906 on Little MangereIsland. The population was likely impacted by the introduction of a disease...
endemic to Chatham, Mangere and Pitt Islands, in the Chatham archipelago of New Zealand. The Chatham rail was first discovered on Mangere in 1871, and 26...
(965 ft) (highest named point in the Chatham Islands) Mangere – 286 m (938 ft) (highest point on MangereIsland) Bluff Hill / Motupohue ("The Bluff", Bluff...
bones from MangereIsland, Chatham Islands" (PDF). Notornis. 41 (supplement): 165–178. Millener, P. R. (1999). "The history of the Chatham Islands' bird fauna...
Tasmania, and on occasion reaches Lord Howe Island. There is one record from MangereIsland in the Chatham Islands archipelago east of New Zealand in 2002...
nearby, along with the construction of the Mangere wastewater oxidation ponds which bordered the island. The island's highest point, 65m high Te Taumata a Rakataura...
is Dolomedes schauinslandi and occurs on South East and Mangereislands in the Chatham Islands. Spider species in New Zealand include: Anoteropsis (wolf...
was also washed away. On Pitt Island, the wharf was destroyed and on MangereIsland there was a large landslide. The source of the tsunami is unknown, it...
project of this type is on Cuvier Island, but other islands are also being used such as Tiritiri Matangi and MangereIsland. Establishment of conservation...
the Tainui waka is memorialised in the name of Ngarango Otainui Island in the Māngere Inlet, where the wooden skids used to haul the waka were left after...
natural forest of these islands has been cleared for farming, but Mangere and Rangatira Islands are now preserved as nature reserves to conserve some of these...
large, nocturnal, flightless weevil only found on Mangere and Rangatira Islands in the Chatham Islands, New Zealand. Hadramphus spinipennis species was...
Mangere United is a community football club football (soccer) club in Mangere, Auckland, New Zealand. They are currently a member of the Auckland Football...
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