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Mangawhai

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Mangawhai

The beach settlement of Mangawhai Heads is 2 kilometres south of Bream Tail, in the middle of a farming district. Adjacent is Mangawhai Harbour, an estuary of the Mangawhai River.

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Claudia Orange, Northland places – Bream Bay and environs, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/7883/mangawhai (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Claudia Orange, published 2 March 2009, updated 1 May 2015.