Dutsen Jirgin Ruwa

Boat Rock wani ƙaramin tsibiri ne na sandstone a cikin Tashar jiragen ruwa ta Waitematā ta Auckland, New Zealand . Boat Rock tsibiri ne mai ɓacewa, wanda ke nutsewa a lokacin da ruwa ya yi yawa.

 Ilimin ƙasa 
Dutse wani yanki ne na dutsen yashi na Waitemata Group wanda aka sanshi a cikin tashar jiragen ruwa ta Waitematā .  Dutse ne mai raƙuman ruwa, wanda aka fallasa a lokacin low tide. Yankin Boat Rock an rufe shi da yashi da kuma harsashi.

Boat Rock gida ne ga nau'o'in da yawa ciki har da slugs na teku kamar Dendrodoris citrina, Dendrodoris nigra da Pleurobranchaea maculata, kwari na teku kamar Maoricolpus roseus da Dicathais orbita .  Bugu da kari, tsibirin gida ne ga kina da nau'in chiton, Cryptoconchus porosus . 

 Tarihi 
Tsibirin ya saba kiransa da Tāmaki Māori iwi da sunaye daban-daban, ciki har da Te Nihokiore ("The Rat's Tooth"), Timata, Te-Toka-tu-Moana ("The Rock Standing in Mid-Sea"), Te-Waka-o-Tawaroa da Te Mata-o-Kahu .  Te Nihokiore mai yiwuwa kwatanci ne game da yadda duwatsu suka kasance masu kaifi duk da cewa teku ta buge su, kama da haƙoran bera. Tsibirin shine sunan Tashar jiragen ruwa ta Waitematā, wanda a zahiri yana nufin "Ruwa na Te Mata". Sunan yana nufin shugaban Te Arawa Kahumatamomoe, wanda lokacin da ya ziyarci tashar jiragen ruwa ya sanya dutse na mauri (dutse mai ma'anar addini) a kan Boat Rock . Sunan Waitematā da farko ana nufin yankin tashar jiragen ruwa na sama kusa da Boat Rock .  An yi amfani da Boat Roha a al'adance a matsayin alamar ƙasar, wanda ke nuna iyakar tasiri tsakanin Tāmaki Māori iwi daban-daban.

 Ruwan da ke kewaye da Boat Rock sun kasance akwai kifi na gargajiya, wanda aka sani da sunan Waipokanoa ("Ruwa na Wauka"). [1].

A shekara ta 1873, an gina alamar jirgin ruwa ta ƙarfe a tsibirin,  wanda jiragen ruwa suka lalata a shekara ta 1905. 

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