The Hauraki Gulf Islands holds over 100 names. From sea level, they seem sometimes floating on a cloud of money, but they are often mistaken for more than a green horizon and Dun in the sparkling waters of the suburbs of Auckland.
The bond is in the Gulf to protect against the wall Coromandel Peninsula, but the islands of the spilled into the Pacific Ocean. There is a striking contrast between the islands, including those in the Gulf itself.
Geologically, it is drowned a campaign where the tops of the hills and volcanic landscapes, we are proud that the islands. The seabed slopes on the side of the Coromandel, where the beaches lifting above the fault line of the East. The Hauraki Plains rivers along the foot once ran from the beaches of the sea, which are linked from other rivers. But the Gulf now covers their meeting places. The sea has risen by at least 100 m to the melting of the ice and plains and rivers have drowned in the Gulf, while several ports have swept across the continent.