Cape Wanbrow
Template:Short description Template:Use New Zealand English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox landform Cape Wanbrow is a rocky headland overlooking Oamaru Harbour, New Zealand. Although it has been a commercial forestry area for a number of decades, the cape is now primarily a Council controlled reserve, and is gradually being replanted with native trees and shrubs.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It has a network of walking tracks and mountain bike tracks, and is popular with the public.
Cape Wanbrow was an important lookout point during the Second World War and hosts a gun emplacement and remains of the original magazine which served the fortified gun.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Below the cape on its north side is a protected area which is home to a blue penguin colony, and rare yellow eyed penguins are to the south of the cape.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> New Zealand fur seals and occasionally elephant seals are found resting on the rocks.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
The geology of the rock making up the cape is complex as layered within the sedimentary rocks are no less than 6 Surtseyan volcanoes of the monogenetic Waiareka-Deborah volcanic field.<ref name=Moorhouse2015>Template:Cite journal</ref>
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