Trounson Kauri Park | |
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Location | Northland, New Zealand |
Coordinates | 35°43′12″S 173°38′58″E / 35.7199752°S 173.6493761°E |
Opened | 1921 |
Trounson Kauri Park is a 586 hectares (1,450 acres) reserve. It was the Department of Conservation's first mainland island in the Northland Region of New Zealand. Characterised by its kauri trees, it was named after James Trounson, who gifted the forest to the Department of Conservation.
Trounson Kauri Park forms a discrete area of native bush set within a rolling rural landscape and rises to a maximum height of some 300 metres. Although not prominent from within the wider landscape, the scale of the vegetation, most notably the kauri accentuates this feature.
Trounson kauri Park includes the catchments of several first order streams of a tributary of the Waima Stream.