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Landing Bay Pinnacle & Teravana Cave
Landing Bay Pinnacle · Ngunguru, Poor Knights Islands, New Zealand
EntryBoat
Max depth14 m–23 m
LevelIntermediate and up
Water bodyPacific Ocean
Water temp16–21°C
Estimated from climate dataDec–Apr
About this site
Landing Bay Pinnacle & Teravana Cave is a cave and pinnacle dive site near Ngunguru, Northland, New Zealand, in the Pacific Ocean. It is reached from a boat with a maximum depth of about 23 m. Best for divers with some experience. Marine life recorded within about 5 km (OBIS/GBIF) includes nudibranchs, jacks, moray eels, stingrays, lobsters. Typical surface water temperature ranges from about 16 to 21 °C over the year.
Conditions by month
BestGoodMixedOctoberGood
Generally good diving.
Marine life
Recorded nearby
Red Rock CodScorpaena cardinalis
Sandager's WrasseCoris sandeyeri
PigfishBodianus unimaculatus
Black AngelfishParma alboscapularis
Yellowtail KingfishSeriola lalandi
Blue MaomaoScorpis violacea
Blue-eyed TriplefinNotoclinops segmentatus
Blue PointerIsurus oxyrinchus
Nearby sites
- 1Landing Bay Poor Knights0.1 km
- 2Taravana Cave0.2 km
- 3Poor Knights Island NZ0.2 km
- 4Boarfish Reef Poor Knights0.3 km
- 5Noel’s Hole0.5 km
- 6Canyon0.5 km
Straight-line distances.
Sources: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · OpenDiveMap (ODbL) · Dive Vibe Community (ODbL) · OpenWaterAtlas (CC BY 4.0), citing OBIS/GBIF · Species occurrences: OBIS (CC BY 4.0), GBIF.org