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{{Use New Zealand English|date=April 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} [[File:Turakirae head, Wellington New Zealand.JPG|thumb|Raised beach, Turakirae Head{{Location map |New Zealand |label=Turakirae Head |position=left |lat_deg=-41.4339|lon_deg=174.9181|lat= |long= |width=180 |float=right |border=infobox|caption= }} ]] '''Turakirae Head''' is a promontory and scientific reserve on the southern coast of [[New Zealand]]'s [[North Island]].<ref>{{LINZ|53332||2010-03-25}}</ref> It is located at the western end of [[Palliser Bay]], 20 kilometres southeast of [[Wellington]], at the southern end of the [[Remutaka Range]]. The headland is notable for a series of marine terraces and beach ridges that record uplift from past earthquakes.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=McSaveney |first=Maurice J. |last2=Graham |first2=Ian J. |last3=Begg |first3=John G. |last4=Beu |first4=Alan G. |last5=Hull |first5=Alan G. |last6=Kim |first6=Kyeong |last7=Zondervan |first7=Albert |date=September 2006 |title=Late Holocene uplift of beach ridges at Turakirae Head, south Wellington coast, New Zealand |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00288306.2006.9515172 |journal=New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics |language=en |volume=49 |issue=3 |pages=337β358 |doi=10.1080/00288306.2006.9515172 |issn=0028-8306|doi-access=free }}</ref> Turakirae Head is also home to a seal colony and [[Durvillaea|southern bull kelp]].<ref name="Vaux-2022a">{{cite journal |doi=10.1111/mec.16535 |pmid=35582778 |title=Parallel recolonisations generate distinct genomic sectors in kelp following high magnitude earthquake disturbance? |journal=Molecular Ecology |volume=31 |issue=18 |pages=4818β4831 |year=2022 |last1=Vaux|first1=Felix |last2=Parvizi|first2=Elahe |last3=Craw|first3=Dave |last4=Fraser|first4=Ceridwen I. |last5=Waters|first5=Jonathan M.|doi-access=free|pmc=9540901 }}</ref> Turakirae also marks the southernmost coastal boundary point for the [[NgΔti Kahungunu]] tribe which extends as far north as Paritu which is just south of [[Gisborne, New Zealand|Gisborne]].
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