Turakirae Head is a promontory on the southern coast of New Zealand's North Island.[1] It is located at the western end of Palliser Bay, 20 kilometres southeast of Wellington, at the southern end of the Remutaka Range. The head hosts a series of uplifted Holocene marine terraces and beach ridges that record uplift from past earthquakes.[2] After each earthquake, a new terrace and beach ridge formed below the previous one at sea level. The most recent earthquake to uplift Turakirae Head was the 1855 Wairarapa earthquake, which raised the shoreline up to 6.4 m.[2] Turakirae Head is also home to a seal colony and southern bull kelp.[3]
Turakirae also marks the southernmost coastal boundary point for the Ngāti Kahungunu tribe which extends as north as Paritu which is just north south of Gisborne.
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^ abMcSaveney, Maurice J.; Graham, Ian J.; Begg, John G.; Beu, Alan G.; Hull, Alan G.; Kim, Kyeong; Zondervan, Albert (September 2006). "Late Holocene uplift of beach ridges at Turakirae Head, south Wellington coast, New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 49 (3): 337–358. doi:10.1080/00288306.2006.9515172. ISSN 0028-8306.
^Vaux, Felix; Parvizi, Elahe; Craw, Dave; Fraser, Ceridwen I.; Waters, Jonathan M. (2022). "Parallel recolonisations generate distinct genomic sectors in kelp following high magnitude earthquake disturbance?". Molecular Ecology. 31 (18): 4818–4831. doi:10.1111/mec.16535. PMC 9540901. PMID 35582778.
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geomorphological evidence, particularly the uplifted beach ridges observed at TurakiraeHead, that appear to record three previous coseismic uplifts of the Rimutaka...
range's northern saddle abuts the southern end of the Tararuas) to TurakiraeHead at the western end of Palliser Bay. The highest peak is Mount Matthews...
Notably, two spatial-genomic sectors of D. antarctica were identified on TurakiraeHead, which received the greatest degree of uplift (2 – 6 m). Phylogeographic...
Other important sites include various coasts of New Zealand, e.g. TurakiraeHead near Wellington being one of the world's best and most thoroughly studied...
Wellington. It runs for 40 kilometres along the Cook Strait coast from TurakiraeHead at the southern end of the Remutaka Ranges to Cape Palliser, the North...
Moore, P R; McFadgen, B G (1978). "Excavation Of A Shell Midden At TurakiraeHead, Near Wellington, And A Date For The Haowhenua Earthquake Of Maori Tradition"...
"Interim results from a study of Hoplodactylus maculatus (Boulenger) at TurakiraeHead, Wellington". New Zealand Wildlife Service occasional publication No...
found above current sea level around the Miramar Peninsula and around TurakiraeHead offer supporting evidence of a large earthquake in the 15th century...
K.; Zondervan, A. (2006). "Late Holocene uplift of beach ridges at TurakiraeHead, south Wellington coast, New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Geology...
the repeat period of major earthquakes, such as the raised beaches of TurakiraeHead recording the history of coseismic uplift of the Rimutaka Range due...
It can be summarised as running north from TurakiraeHead along the summit of the Rimutaka Range to the head of the Hutt Valley, then south-west across...
rupture continued onto the Alfredton Fault. The uplifted beach ridges of TurakiraeHead provide a proxy record of prehistoric earthquakes. This record has been...
spatial sectors of population structure in Durvillaea antarctica on TurakiraeHead in New Zealand. It is hypothesized that older historical constraints...
system have similar rates of movement. Beaches around Wellington and TurakiraeHead show multiple raised platforms corresponding to previous earthquakes...
Palliser Bay at Ocean Beach. A rough farm track runs 18 km (11 mi) via TurakiraeHead to the end of the Ride at Ōrongorongo. Due to soft sand near the beach...
June 2023. "Ceremony to mark 75 years since HMS Puriri sinking off Bream Head". Stuff. 11 May 2016. Retrieved 7 June 2023. "Northern Steam Ship Company...
Waimea New Zealand The coaster was scuttled in the Cook Strait off TurakiraeHead, North Island as a means of disposal. Wendover United Kingdom The cargo...
tarairi), and at sea level in karaka (Corynocarpus laevigatus) trees at Cape Turakirae. It was never seen in burnt forest or land cleared for farming. The huia's...
propagate 1500 plants from cuttings, and these were subsequently planted in Turakirae Reserve where the species once occurred. M. astonii is now rare in the...
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