Haumuri Bluff (also known as Amuri Bluff) is a headland on the coast of

New Zealand New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 smaller islands. It is the List of isla ...

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on the south side of Piripaua (Spyglass Point), located several kilometres south of

Oaro Oaro is a settlement close to the Pacific Ocean Coast of north Canterbury, in the South Island of New Zealand. Oaro is within Kaikōura District on State Highway 1 and on the South Island Main Trunk railway, 20 kilometres south of Kaikōura. It ...

. It has been a major palaeontological site since the mid-19th century,Campbell, H.
Haumuri Bluff
, ''Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand'', 9 July 2013. Retrieved 24 June 2016. and has lent its name to the Haumurian stage in the

New Zealand geologic time scale While also using the international geologic time scale, many nations–especially those with isolated and therefore non-standard prehistories–use their own systems of dividing geologic time into epochs and faunal stages. In New Zealand, the ...

. The bluff has also been the site of numerous shipwrecks.

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Paleontological sites of New Zealand Headlands of the Canterbury Region Kaikōura District {{CanterburyNZ-geo-stub