. The geography of New Zealand. Historical, physical, political, and commercial . t important of these inlets are Whangape,Hokianga, Kaipara, Manukau, Whaiugaroa, andAotea. The entrance of the Waikato River is of asimilar nature, but within the sand bar there is notthe wide area of tidal waters that is so characteristicof the other inlets. Reef Point, Maunganui Bluff, and Woody Headare the only prominent points. From Aotea Harbour to New Plymouth, that is,throughout the North Taranaki Bight the Cainozoiccoast line prevails except for a short distance onboth sides of Albatross Head where shale
. The geography of New Zealand. Historical, physical, political, and commercial . t important of these inlets are Whangape,Hokianga, Kaipara, Manukau, Whaiugaroa, andAotea. The entrance of the Waikato River is of asimilar nature, but within the sand bar there is notthe wide area of tidal waters that is so characteristicof the other inlets. Reef Point, Maunganui Bluff, and Woody Headare the only prominent points. From Aotea Harbour to New Plymouth, that is,throughout the North Taranaki Bight the Cainozoiccoast line prevails except for a short distance onboth sides of Albatross Head where shale rocks formtheir characteristic coast. Rolling sand dunes formthe coast line near the entrances of harbours orrivers. Kawhia Harbour, the only important inlet, 68 GEOGRAPHY OF NEW ZEALAND has characters in all essential respects similar tothose of Kaipara and other West Coast only island off this part of the coast is GannetIsland, an isolated rock 15 miles north of AlbatrossHead. At New Plymouth the small volcanic rocksforming the Sugarloafs are conspicuous | Frhs. piiSH £.fo3. Fl-hs. |: ? iDrvanow Scale : f inch = 1 of entrance to Manukau Harbour, showing sand banks and bar. South of New Plymouth the coast line is fringedwith volcanic rocks. Here, however, the sea has notworn the hills back into steep beetling cliffs as isoften the case in New Zealand. The cliffs are com-paratively low but the land rises quickly behind THE NEW ZEALAND COAST 69 them. There are no inlets and no capes except CapeBgmont. Further southward to the mouth of the WangaehuRiver the Cainozoic type of coast is well the mouth of every river and stream, rolling-sandhills are blown slowly inland and form a wasteof dunes. There are no prominent capes, and theriver entrances are here, as elsewhere, nearly closedby shifting bars of black sand formed of materialbrought down by the rivers from the volcanicmountains in which they take their rise. South of the W
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