Cape Maria van Diemen is the westernmost point of the North Island of New Zealand. A tombolo, it was originally an island composed mainly of basaltic-andesitic lava flows and dykes. Drifting sands joined it to the rest of the North Island during the late Pleistocene.
The cape was named by Abel Tasman, after the wife of his patron, Anthony van Diemen, Governor General of Batavia in January 1643, on the same voyage of discovery during which he named Van Diemen's Land. It is - along with the Three Kings Islands - one of only two geographic features in New Zealand to retain the names given to them by Tasman.
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Maria_van_Diemen
Coordinates -34°28'33.068" N 172°38'35.187" E
