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Cape Kidnappers - Te Kauwae-a-Māui
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DescriptionThe Cape Kidnappers Gannet Reserve was gifted to the Crown in 1914 as “a reserve for the protection of gannets” by the then local landowner Mr F. L. Gordon. In 1960, Black Reef was added. The reserve was administered by the Napier office of the Department of Lands and Survey prior to the formation of DOC in 1987. Up until the late 1980s a summer ranger was employed to look after visitors to the reserve and to maintain the tracks and facilities, staying for up to four months in the ranger's cottage at the Cape. Visitors are able to walk to the gannet colony along the beach from Clifton at low tide. Gannet Beach Adventures ran tours from 1952 until January 2019, when two walkers were injured by a rockfall. Gannet Safaris still operates an overland day-trip from Te Awanga.
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Cape Kidnappers - Te Kauwae-a-Māui. National Parks and Reserves Rangers Archive, accessed 21/03/2026, https://parkrangersnz.recollectcms.com/nodes/view/48