Location of Mayor Island

Mayor Island (or Tuhua) is located off the Bay of Plenty coast of New Zealand's North Island. In topography a summit is a point on a surface which is higher in Elevation than all points immediately adjacent to History According to local Māori traditions, the Bay of Plenty was the landing point of several migration canoes that brought Māori settlers to New Zealand The North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, the other being the South Island. New Zealand is an Island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (the North Island and the South Island A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. Mountains can be characterized in several ways Some mountains are Volcanoes and can be characterized by the type of lava and eruptive history A shield volcano is a large Volcano with shallow-sloping sides Plate tectonics and hotspots Divergent plate boundaries At the History According to local Māori traditions, the Bay of Plenty was the landing point of several migration canoes that brought Māori settlers to New Zealand New Zealand is an Island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (the North Island and the South Island The North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, the other being the South Island. It is 35 kilometres north of Tauranga and covers 13 km². for the electorate see Tauranga (NZ electorate Tauranga (population 114500 2007 estimate after status was lost after 1989 Local A dormant shield volcano, the island is quite steep along its coast and rises to 355 metres. A shield volcano is a large Volcano with shallow-sloping sides It is believed to have risen from the sea about 7000 years ago. Hot springs abound, and there are two small crater lakes, Green Lake and Black Lake. Green Lake is the name of four lakes in New Zealand. Two are named in comparison with neighbouring lakes called Blue Lake, while a third similarly is near Black These lie within two overlapping calderas formed in explosive eruptions 36,000 and 6,340 years ago. A caldera is a cauldron-like volcanic feature formed by the collapse of land following a volcanic eruption Mayor Island has exhibited a wide range of eruptive styles, including fire fountains, Strombolian explosions, extrusion of lava domes, phreatomagmatic explosions, Plinian falls and ignimbrite. The most recent lava flows have been dated at between 500 and 1,000 years old.

The island is considered special by Māori (the indigenous people of Aotearoa/New Zealand) partly because of the presence of black obsidian, a volcanic glass created by the rapid cooling of silica-rich lava, prized as a cutting tool. This article discusses the Māori people of New Zealand For their language see Māori language, and for other meanings see Māori (disambiguation. Obsidian is a naturally occurring Glass formed as an extrusive Igneous rock. The obsidian was called Tuhua by Māori who called the island by the same name. Captain James Cook called it Mayor Island when he sighted it on November 3, 1769, in recognition of the Lord Mayor's Day to be held in London a few days later. Captain James Cook FRS RN ( – 14 February 1779) was an English Explorer, Navigator and Events 644 - Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim Caliph, is killed by a Persian slave in Medina. Year 1769 ( MDCCLXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Lord Mayor's Day, in England, is the day marked by a pageant known as the Lord Mayor's Show for the Lord Mayor of the City of London. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom.

The area of the Bay of Plenty around the island is renowned for game fishing, with marlin, mako sharks, and swordfish all inhabiting the surrounding waters. Big-game fishing, often referred to as offshore sportfishing, offshore gamefishing, or blue-water fishing is a form of recreational Fishing, Marlin, Istiophoridae, is a member of a larger grouping of marine Fishes known as "billfish" of which several are popular in Big-game fishing Swordfish ( Xiphias gladius) are large highly migratory Predatory Fish characterized by a long flat bill. The island and the waters close to its shores, however, are now a small marine reserve. There are several tramping tracks around the island, and it is also popular with divers. The word 'hiking' is understood in all English-speaking countries but there are differences in usage This article refers to underwater diving by humans For other uses of the term diving see Dive and Diving Underwater diving is Several pa sites are known on the island, which was inhabited until 1901. The word pā (pronounced pah refers to a Māori Village, generally one from the 19th century or earlier that was fortified for defence Year 1901 ( MCMI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Mayor Island is actually closer to Waihi Beach than Tauranga.

Mayor Island today is a wildlife refuge. A small number of holiday houses are located in Opo Bay on the south coast of the island[1]. Currently a population of three is reported (census of 2001, after zero in 1996 and 12 in 1991 (all figures randomised (for privacy) on a Base-3 system)[[2]]

References

• Volcanic hazards at Mayor Island, by B. A census is the procedure of acquiring information about every member of a given population F. Houghton, C. J. N. Wilson, S. D. Weaver, M. A. Lanphere, and J. Barclay.
• Global Volcanism Program: Mayor Island
• There is a comprehensive article on Mayor Island in the New Zealand Geographic Magazine, number 3, July - September 1989.