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Rurima Island is a small island in the Bay of Plenty, off New Zealand's North Island. The island is the largest of the Rurima Rocks, with the smaller Moutoki and Tokata Islands lying about east and west respectively. Located approximately west of Moutohora Island and northwest from the mouth of the Rangitaiki River, the Rurima Rocks are an uninhabited nature reserve owned by the Ngāti Awa iwi.〔(Draft Bay of Plenty Conservation Management Strategy ), Environment Bay of Plenty.〕 Kiore (Polynesian Rat) were eradicated in the 1980s, and Moutoki Island has long been an outpost for tuatara. The closest settlement is Thornton, about upstream from the mouth of the Rangitaiki. Rurima Island is about long, with two bays and sandy beaches on the northwest side. A wide shallow reef, almost a lagoon, stretches north from the pohutukawa-covered island. Snorkelling, diving and kayaking are popular activities here.〔(Whale and Rurima Islands ), Phantom Charters, Whakatane.〕 The wreck of the ''SS Tasman'', holed on the southwest reef in 1912, lies nearby.〔(Diving White Island, the Volkner Rocks and the Eastern Bay of Plenty ), OhopeBeach.info.〕 There is some geothermal activity on and near the islands.〔A. R. Duncan and H. M. Pantin (1969).(Evidence for submarine geothermal activity in the Bay of Plenty ), ''New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research'', 3, 602-606.〕 == See also == * List of islands of New Zealand * New Zealand outlying islands 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rurima Island」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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