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New Zealand
Long Island, New Zealand, an
island in the Marlborough Sounds of New Zealand
Long Island is located in
the Marlborough Sounds of New Zealand. It is just over 1.41 square kilometers in
area with a length of 4 km (the long axis being aligned North-east/South-west)
and a maximum width of 1 km - hence the name "Long Island". The island was
reserved for public utility on the 26th of March 1926 and soon after became a
farm which ran between 300 and 400 sheep until January 14th 1926 when the island
became a scenic reserve. With the removal of stock in the 1930s the island has
been left to regenerate back into native bush. In April 1993 the Long Island-Kokomohua
Marine reserve was created around Long island and the tiny Kokomohua islands off
its northern tip - it extends 460 meters offshore from the high water mark
around the islands and was the first Marine reserve to be created in the South
Island. The island itself is also an important wildlife refuge and a number of
species of threatened endemic birds which have been reintroduced to it including
Little Spotted Kiwi (late 1980s), Yellow Crowned Kakariki (2001) and South
Island Saddleback (2005) - all these reintroductions have been successful with
healthy breeding populations of each species now present on the Island.
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Long Island (Papua New Guinea)
Long Island is a volcanic
island north of Papua New Guinea. It is separated from the island of New Guinea
by Vitiaz Strait. Two stratovolcanoes are located on the island: Mount Reaumur
and Cerisy Peak. The summit of the volcanic complex collapsed during at least
three major explosive eruptions, about 16,000, 4000, and 300 years ago. These
produced a large caldera 10 x 12.5 km in size, now filled with a crater lake,
Lake Wisdom. The most recent eruption occurred in 1993.
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