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The Brothers (Māori: Ngāwhatu-kai-ponu) is a group of small islands in Cook Strait, New Zealand, off the east coast of Arapaoa Island.

The Brothers
Ngāwhatu-kai-ponu
North Brother (left) and South Brother
Geography
Coordinates41.114°S 174.433°E / -41.114; 174.433
Major islandsSouth Brother, North Brother
Area0.17 km2 (0.066 sq mi)
Highest elevation66 m (217 ft)
Administration
New Zealand
Demographics
Population0

The Brothers form two small island groups, each containing one main island and a number of tiny islets. The main islands are simply called North Brother and South Brother. South Brother is the larger of the two, covering some 9.5 hectares (23 acres), but the 4-hectare (9.9-acre) North Brother is slightly more elevated, rising to 66 metres (217 ft),[1] and is topped by the Brothers Islands Lighthouse, built in 1877.[2] Most of the smaller islets lie in a small arc south of North Brother, with the largest being only some one hectare in area.

The Māori name for the group, Ngāwhatu-kai-ponu, literally means "the eyes that witnessed", and the islands are considered tapu to the Māori.[2]

North Brother Island is a sanctuary for a rare reptile subspecies, the Brothers Island tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus guntheri), and is the type locality for a rare beetle species, the Cook Strait click beetle (Amychus granulatus), although the latter is possibly extinct there now.[3]


See also



References


  1. Topographical map
  2. McKinnon, M. "Arapawa Island to Port Underwood", Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. 18 Jun 2015. Accessed 15 September 2018.
  3. Marris, John W. M.; Johnson, Paul J. (2010). "A revision of the New Zealand click beetle genus AmychusPascoe 1876 (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Denticollinae) with a description of a new species from the Three Kings Islands". Zootaxa. 2331: 35–56. Retrieved 29 May 2016.


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[de] The Brothers (Cook Strait)

The Brothers (Māori Ngā Whatu) sind eine Gruppe von mehreren Felseninseln in der Cook Strait im Norden der Südinsel von Neuseeland. Administrativ zählt die Inselgruppe zum Marlborough District.[1]
- [en] The Brothers (New Zealand)

[fr] The Brothers (Nouvelle-Zélande)

The Brothers, "Les frères" en français, sont un groupe de petites îles dans le détroit de Cook en Nouvelle-Zélande, au large de la côte Est de l'île Arapaoa.


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