Cape Rodney

Cape Rodney is a coastal point north of Leigh on the North Auckland Peninsula.

Etymology

Cape Rodney was named by Captain James Cook after George Brydges Rodney on 24 November 1769.^[1]

Cape Rodney is made of up of the Triassic–Jurassic Waipapa Group and the Miocene Waitemata Group.^[2]

The Wakatuwhenuacanoe landed at Cape Rodney c.1350.^[3]

Cape Rodney forms part of the Cape Rodney-Okakari Point Marine Reserve, the first marine reserve in New Zealand. The Leigh Marine Laboratory is located on the cape.^[4]

↑"Place name detail: 17971". New Zealand Gazetteer. Land Information New Zealand.
↑Hopgood, A. M. (1961). "The geology of the Cape Rodney — Kawau district, Auckland". New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 4 (2): 205–230. doi:10.1080/00288306.1961.10423137. ISSN 0028-8306.
↑Hayward, Bruce; Diamond, John (June 1978). Prehistoric Archaeological Sites of the Waitakere Ranges and West Auckland, New Zealand (Report). Auckland Regional Authority.
↑McClure, Margaret (March 2009). "Auckland places". Warkworth. Te Ara - The Encyclopaedia of New Zealand.

36°16′43″S174°49′15″E / 36.27871°S 174.82095°E / -36.27871; 174.82095