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… end at 39° 38'. Mahia Peninsula lies at its north-eastern end and Cape Kidnappers at the south. The 100-fathom … within the line joining Mahia and Kidnappers, and the water of the bay gently and steadily shoals from this line to the shore. At a distance of …
… embayment on the northern shore of Cook Strait. Its western end is marked by Cape Turakirae and its eastern end by Cape Palliser, the most southerly part of the … lowered perhaps as much as 350 ft, due to the storage of water as ice in the great continental glaciers. Consequently, …
… Wairoa is situated on alluvial flats on the southern bank of the Wairoa … the town the country rises to the high hills that form a watershed between Lake Waikaremoana and the coastal lowlands … activities are meat freezing and the processing of associated by-products, the manufacture of butter, bricks and …
… Whakatane is situated on the eastern bank of the Whakatane River mouth in the Bay of Plenty. …
… his circumnavigation of the South Island Captain Cook sighted the peninsula on 16 February 1770. On the following day … entrance to Akaroa Harbour. In the early years of the nineteenth century sealers and whalers appeared on the scene and they found Maori (Ngai Tahu) settlements near where Lyttelton and Akaroa now stand. The natives, however, had been …
… In different parts of New Zealand carvers tended to conform to characteristic local styles of carving. These local styles are consistent enough to justify the use of the term “culture areas”. …
… Auckland. In its northern part it is a peninsula that separates the Hauraki Gulf and the Firth of Thames from the Pacific Ocean. Its southernmost extension is usually defined by the Karangahake Gorge through … end, the range consists of volcanic flows of Late Tertiary age. As such, it could be extended 20 miles …
… Tauranga Harbour is in the western part of the Bay of Plenty. This sheltered stretch of water is 20 miles long by 5 miles wide and is enclosed by a …
… in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. John Hobbs was born in 1800 at St. Peter's in the Isle of Thanet, Kent, the son of Richard Hobbs, … the Wesleyan Church, becoming a lay preacher three years later. Towards the close of 1822, because he wanted to do …
… Grape Growing and Wine Making Grape vines were first planted by the Rev. Samuel Marsden at Kerikeri in 1819. James … to the Bay of Islands in 1833 as the British Resident, planted vines at Waitangi and made wine, some of which he sold … at the Bay of Islands. Charles Darwin, when he visited New Zealand in 1835, observed grapes growing at Waimate …