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unusual facts about Mount Hobson, Great Barrier Island


Mount Hobson

Mount Hobson, Great Barrier Island, the largest mountain on Great Barrier Island, New Zealand


Dairy Flat

In addition to club and private aircraft, the field is used by Great Barrier Airlines to run a scheduled air service in 12 seat aircraft to Great Barrier Island, some 40 nm (75 km) offshore.

Duvaucel's gecko

Duvaucel's gecko, Hoplodactylus duvaucelli, is a gecko found on predator-free offshore islands of New Zealand, including Great Barrier Island and a number of Cook Strait islands.

Fly My Sky

Scheduled services were developed to provide several flights a day between Auckland International Airport, Whangarei and Great Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf in 1998.

Homing pigeon

Possibly the first regular air mail service in the world was Mr. Howie's Pigeon-Post service from the Auckland New Zealand suburb of Newton to Great Barrier Island, starting in 1896.

Kangaroo Island SeaLink

In Auckland, SeaLink operates regular services to Waiheke Island and Great Barrier Island.

Kunzea ericoides

Members of the kānuka complex are found throughout New Zealand occurring on the Three Kings Islands, Aotea (Great Barrier Island), from Te Paki (on the Aupouri Peninsula) at the northern tip of the North Island to as far south as Dunedin and Central Otago in the South Island, and the Stewart Island.

Mount Hobson

Mount Hobson, Auckland, a volcanic cone in the Auckland Volcanic Field, New Zealand

Zealandopterix zonodoxa

It is known from the northern North Island of New Zealand, from Te Paki south to Puketitri, Hawkes Bay and including Poor Knights, Little Barrier and Great Barrier Islands.


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