Cape Wanbrow

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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. 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 whice served the fortified gun. 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. NZ fur seals and the occasional elephant seal are found resting on the rocks.