DOC SPOTS: North Cape
Channel: Department of Conservation
Date: 2015-11-05

Join DOC Ranger Phil ‘Brownie’ Brown and the team fixing the North Cape fence. The North Cape of New Zealand is the most northern point of New Zealand. It’s an incredibly unique part of the country filled with flora and fauna found nowhere else in the world.

North Cape was once an island formed by a marine volcano. Sand deposited by ocean currents eventually formed the Waikuku Flat which joined the island to the rest of the peninsula. 

The headland and flat combined now form the North Cape Peninsula.

A large part of North Cape is enclosed in the North Cape Scientific Reserve. The reserve’s purpose is to protect the unique flora and fauna of the area, some of it endemic to the area.