Is it legal to collect at Lyttelton, New Zealand: Otamahua Quail Island ships' graveyard?

Prohibited, look only. NZ: DOC recreation reserve and a listed Historic Area; all pre-1900 sites protected under the Heritage NZ Pouhere Taonga Act 2014 whether listed or not; removing anything from a DOC reserve is an offence under the Reserves Act

What can you find at Lyttelton, New Zealand: Otamahua Quail Island ships' graveyard?

wreck timbers, iron fastenings, copper sheathing, ballast, quarantine-station ceramics and glass in the intertidal

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Canterbury

Lyttelton, New Zealand

Otamahua Quail Island ships' graveyard

Tidal foreshore Documented siteProhibited, look only

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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Wreck timber

Nails and fittings

Sea pottery

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS photo (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

Twelve or thirteen hulks scuttled off the western end of Quail Island 1902 to 1951; island also a quarantine station and leper colony.

Heritage New Zealand List 9552 (Otamahua Quail Island Historic Area, listed 2018) itemises the hulks (Flying Squirrel 1902, Waiwera, Dorset, Don, Red Jacket, Lyttelton c.1907, Belle Isle, Mullogh, La Plata 1929, Frank Guy 1937, Darra 1953) and the low-tide mudflat from Moepuku PointView source →