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{{Use New Zealand English|date=April 2024}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
[[File:Phalacrocorax featherstoni Keulemans.jpg|thumb|right|Pitt shag, illustrated by [[John Gerrard Keulemans|Keulemans]]]]
'''Okawa Point''' lies at the north-eastern end of [[Hanson Bay]] near the easternmost point of the main [[Chatham Island]] in the [[Chatham Islands]] group of [[New Zealand]].  It has been identified as an [[Important Bird Area]] by [[BirdLife International]] because it supports breeding colonies of the [[critically endangered species|critically endangered]] [[Chatham shag|Chatham]] and [[endangered species|endangered]] [[Pitt shag]]s.<ref name=bli>{{cite web |url=http://www.birdlife.org |title=Chatham Islands (Okawa Pt) |accessdate=2012-11-16 |work=BirdLife data zone: Important Bird Areas |publisher=BirdLife International |date=2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070710124603/http://www.birdlife.org/ |archivedate=10 July 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.doc.govt.nz/documents/conservation/marine-and-coastal/marine-conservation-services/MCSPOP2010-02-chatham-shag-census-presentation.pdf |title= MCSPOP2010-02 Chatham Island and Pitt Island Shag census 2011 |accessdate=2012-11-16 |author1=Debski, Igor |author2=Bell, Mike |author3=Palmer, Dan |publisher=Department of Conservation, New Zealand }}</ref>
The New Zealand [[Ministry for Culture and Heritage]] gives a translation of "place of bitter (water)" for ''Ōkawa''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/maori-language-week/1000-maori-place-names|title=1000 Māori place names|publisher=New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage|date=6 August 2019}}</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Important Bird Areas of the Chatham Islands]]
[[Category:Headlands of the Chatham Islands]]
[[Category:Seabird colonies]]
[[Category:Chatham Island]]
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