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The Manawatāwhi / Three Kings Islands (Manawatāwhi is also the Māori name for the largest island) are a group of 13 uninhabited islands about 55 kilometres (34 mi) northwest of Cape Reinga / Te Rerenga Wairua, New Zealand, where the South Pacific Ocean and Tasman Sea converge. They measure 6.85 km 2 (2.64 sq mi) in area. [1]
Manawatāwhi/Three Kings Islands, outlying island group of New Zealand, in the South Pacific Ocean 40 miles (64 km) northwest of North Island. Of volcanic formation, the islands have a total land area of 2.7 square miles (7 square km). Manawatāwhi/Great Island, the largest at 875 acres (354 hectares), has steep coasts and is rocky.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Clifftop world of the three kings. Protected by remoteness, violent seas, steep cliffs and Government decree, the Three Kings Islands north of New Zealand are home to many plant and animal species found nowhere else, and are among our least-known islands. West Island and some of the Princes Islands, viewed from the helicopter’s precarious ...
The Three King's Islands is a group of islands about 55 kilometres (34 mi) northwest of New Zealand's North Island. The islands are uninhabited. The islands are uninhabited. They are a nature reserve today.
The Three Kings Islands, named by Dutch explorer Abel Tasman in 1643, lie 53 kilometres north-west of Cape Maria van Diemen. In the foreground of the group is West Island, on which the trans-Tasman steamer Elingamite was wrecked in 1902.
The Three Kings Islands are one of only two places in New Zealand which retain the (translated) name given by the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman (the other is Cape Maria van Diemen). They are about 50 kilometres north-west of Cape Rēinga, and form a continuation of the Northland peninsula. This view is of Princes Rocks and West Island, from South ...
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Manawatawhi - Three Kings Island (Nature Reserve) History. Purchased by the Crown from Maori owners in 1908, Manawatawhi was declared a sanctuary under the Animals Protection and Game Act in 1930. Its status was changed to that of a Nature Reserve in 1956 for the preservation of flora and fauna, and is now managed by the Department of Conservation.
