Notice of AGM 2015
Annual General Meeting
Sunday, 9th August 2015, 2.00pm
Rangitoto Ramblings
The latest Rangitoto newsletter is now available online.
Reports for AGM 2014 : : Trustee Report 2014
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Rangitoto Baches
A short DOC movie on the Rangitoto Baches by AUT student Kylie Newman.
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Rangitoto Island roadside story
Roadside Stories is a series of audio guides that follow major road trips in New Zealand. The stories cover the places you'll pass along the way -- their people, their history, their cultural and natural significance. For more information about Roadside Stories visit http://www.mch.govt.nz/roadside/
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Rangitoto Island Wrecks
The coastlines of Hauraki Gulf islands were once used as dumping grounds for obsolete ships. With rapid changes in technology, ships quickly became outdated and uneconomic to maintain.
Nowadays, obsolete vessels can be cut up and the materials recycled, but in the past disposing of unwanted vessels was a problem. The easiest solution was to drive them ashore where they would be out of sight, and leave them to rot or rust away.
Wreck Bay and the adjacent coastline of Rangitoto is a graveyard for at least 13 ships that were dumped on the island between 1887 and 1947. Read more>>
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Scouts on Rangitoto Island
Early photos of the Scout Camps on Rangitoto Island in the 1930s, 1948 and 1951.
More images and information here>>
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Saddleback nesting
The annual bird count has just been completed on Rangitoto Island and it is all good news. Researchers report seeing Saddleback and hearing Kaka and Kakariki. 15 Tieke were sighted, with 7 pairs, a single male bird has visited the Blue House on Motutapu. Also a female is using a nesting box and three other have made natural nests.
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A summer place
Take a look at this documentary from 1995 in the TVNZ archive - it features many Rangitoto baches.
Synopsis: This beautifully-shot documentary is a social and architectural history of the great NZ bach (or crib for those south of the Waitaki). Maggie Barry tracks their evolution from workers’ cottages to a fully fledged icon in danger of extinction: as the blind eye turned by councils that made them possible becomes a thing of the past, and the coastline becomes too valuable to allow ‘just anyone’ to erect a shack on it. The Kiwi spirit that created the building is celebrated; and bach enthusiasts interviewed include Sam Hunt, Keri Hulme, Karl Stead and Rawiri Paratene.
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Release of Takahe and Saddleback
Motutapu and Rangitoto islands were today (27 August 2011) officially declared pest-free wildlife sanctuaries following a successful eradication programme that first started 20 years ago.
They will now become home to takahe, with aims to have them house the largest population of takahe outside of Fiordland.
DOC has removed nine animal species from the islands. Possums and wallabies were eradicated in the 1990s. Ship rats, Norway rats, stoats, mice, feral cats, hedgehogs and rabbits have now been removed with the completion of a major eradication operation that began in June 2009.
To mark the occasion Conservation Minister Kate Wilkinson made the first release of threatened native wildlife on Motutapu Island - including two breeding pairs of takahë and 20 saddleback.
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Latest Rangitoto Photos on Flickr
A group has been setup on Flickr to showcase all your photos of Rangitoto Island. This is a public group and anyone with a Flickr account can add photos. This is another way fans of Rangitoto Island can share their photos and comment on others. Feel free to join in.
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Travelling to Rangitoto Island
Please remember when visiting Rangitoto that the island is pest free.
Please check your bags prior to boarding for rodents, insects and other pests.
Footwear must be checked to ensure they are clean and free of seeds.
More information can be found here>>
Biosecurity Standards
Find out about the new standards for Doc managed Islands in the Hauraki Gulf and take a look at the Environmental Care Code and Water Care Code.
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