Volume Three Appendix 2 Coastal Terrestrial Area 3: Bulwer Sub Area Rating Key Values Additional Comments Fitzroy Bay). Very High perceived naturalness values. Maud Island Very High Maud Island is distinctive, rare and nationally important due to its predator-free status and nationally threatened fauna. Eastern Waitata High (small Relatively low levels of modification Also contains low intensity Reach, Forsyth part Very and extensive areas of regenerating grazed pastoral land. Island and land High at bush, especially on Forsyth Island. south of Allen Kauauroa Largely-intact podocarp-broadleaved Strait Bay) forest at Kauauroa Bay. North West Bay Very High Indigenous forested peninsula at Modification to the immediate and High Stafford Point. north. Coastal Terrestrial Area 4: Arapawa Sub Area Rating Key Values Additional Comments Blumine, Very High The Long Island gravel cuspate Pickersgill and foreland is considered a regionally Long Islands important landform feature. Island refuges support communities with an absence of major introduced mammals, and are regionally and nationally important. These islands are also important for their uninterrupted natural sequences from ridge top to sea floor, and relatively intact coastal communities. Very high perceived naturalness values. Remaining areas High Extensive areas of regenerating bush. Occasional house and of Arapawa Extensive area of indigenous forest at pastoral land included within Wharehunga Bay. rating. Experiential values are high along parts of Queen Charlotte Sound, the Kaitapeha peninsula, parts of northern Arapawa Island, including East Bay and western parts of Tory Channel due to the numerous indented bays holding limited modification. App 2 - 11