Name StatusOfficial ValidatedFeatureBeachNZ Gazette Reference2012 (53) p.1477DatumRSRGD2000GeoTag[1] PositionDescriptionThe beach that is the site of the middle Adelie Penguin rookery at Cape Bird. This rookery suffered the disaster of being nearly washed away at least one year before it was visited in January 1959 by members of the NZGSAE, 1958-59, and possibly after the visit by Austen in the 1955/56 season. The beach merges with a low gravel stream-fan which extends inland to high rock bluffs topped by the edge of the Mt Bird melt-water from the ice-cap or from the sudden outbreak of a sub-glacial stream. The penguin rookery on the seaward end of the stream-fan was cut into isolated remnants elevated a foot or more above their surroundings by erosion along the braided channels of the stream. There are signs of another long-abandoned rookery on the south end of the beach. Given this descriptive name by the NZGSAE, 1958-59. Waipuke is the Maori word for flood.
