Twenty-three kilometres off New Zealand’s Tutukaka Coast and washed by warm currents swept south from the Coral Sea, the Poor Knights Islands are an international icon.
A total Marine Reserve and Nature Reserve - the 11 million year old Islands’ volcanic origins provide a myriad of spectacular drop-offs, walls, caves, arches and tunnels.
Above and below water, the Islands are abundantly populated with unique and incredibly varied plant, animal and fish life.
Laying claim to an astounding Maori history and the world’s largest sea cave (and only living dinosaur and largest insect), the remarkable Poor Knights thoroughly deserve their protected status.