3. Board's district
The board's district (as shown in figure one) is south of a line from the mouth of the Manawatu River, through the Manawatu Gorge south of Woodville and across to the east coast, south of Cape Turnagain. It is the same area as the department of Conservation's Wellington Conservancy but excludes the Chatham Islands.
The dominant landforms of the district are formed by the axial greywacke mountains in the Rimutaka and Tararua Ranges, and by uplifted hill country in the eastern Wairarapa and Tararua. The coastally influenced plains of Kapiti and Horowhenua lie west of the Tararua Ranges, and the Wairarapa Plains, Lakes Wairarapa and Onoke, and the eastern hill country lie east of the Tararua and Rimutaka Ranges.
The key places administered by the Department of Conservation in the board's district are:
- Lake Wairarapa Wetlands
- Government Buildings
- Carter Scenic Reserve
- Turnbull House
- Castlepoint Scenic Reserve
- Pukerua Bay Scientific Reserve
- National Wildlife Centre (Mount Bruce)
- Paraparaumu Scenic Reserve
- Putangirua Pinnacles
- Hemi Matenga Scenic Reserve
- Cape Palliser
- Waikanae Estuary
- Rewa Bush
- Papaitonga Scenic Reserve
- Rocky Hills Snail Reserves, Horowhenua
- Tora Scenic Reserve
- Tararua Forest Park
- Colonial Knob
- Aorangi (Haurangi) Forest Park
- Makara Coast
- Rimutaka Forest Park
- Pauatahanui Inlet, Porirua Harbour
- Kapiti Island Nature Reserve
- Pencarrow Head, Kohunga Lakes
- Mana Island
- Turakirae Head
- Matiu/Somes Island
- Wellington South Coast
- Kapiti Marine Reserve
- Dominion Observatory
Figure 1: Map of the Wellington Conservation Board's district
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