Whangaroa Harbor
| Whangaroa Harbor | ||
| Geographical location | ||
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| Coordinates | 35 ° 3 ′ S , 173 ° 44 ′ E | |
| Region ISO | NZ-NTL | |
| country | New Zealand | |
| region | Northland | |
| Sea access | Whangaroa Bay , Pacific Ocean | |
| Data on the natural harbor | ||
| Port entrance | 300 m wide | |
| length | around 7 km | |
| width | Max. 3.5 km | |
| Coastline | around 70 km | |
| places | Whangaroa , Totara North | |
| Tributaries | Pupuke River , Kaeo River | |
| Islands | Milford Island , Ohauroro Island | |
| Marina | Whangaroa | |
| Jetty | Whangaroa | |
| Photography of the natural harbor | ||
 Whangaroa settlement at Whangaroa Harbor with the St. John volcanic vent |
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The Whangaroa Harbor is a natural harbor on the north east coast of the North Island of New Zealand .
Origin of name
The Māori name Whangaroa means something like " long port ".
geography
The Whangaroa Harbor is located approximately 27 km northwest of Kerikeri with an access on the Whangaroa Bay to the Pacific Ocean . The natural harbor, which extends around 7 km inland, has several deep and rugged ones on both sides. up to 2.5 km long bays. At its widest point, the water measures 3.5 km. The Whangaroa Harbor has an estimated 70 km long shoreline.
In the southwest, the port area reaches up to the New Zealand State Highway 10 , which crosses Waihapa Bay , a bay of the natural harbor, in the northwest . The two largest tributaries are the Pupuke River, coming from the south, and the Kaeo River, coming from the southeast . In the port area there are several islands, of which Milford Island , also called Wairaupo Island , and Ohauroro Island are by far the largest of the Natarhafen.
The largest settlement, Whangaroa , is located on the south-east bank in the middle of the harbor . a. has a marina. On the opposite bank is the next larger settlement Totara North . On the opposite bank are the next larger settlements Totara North and Saies . Administratively, Whangaroa Harbor belongs to the Far North District of Northland .
geology
The area of the natural harbor was originally a valley of a river and was flooded about 6,000 years ago by rising sea levels. The steep rock formations on the banks of the water were created by volcanic activity.
history
After the stories of the Māori explored during the settlement of New Zealand, the Waka (canoe) Māhuhu-ki-te-rangi the Whangaroa Harbor . Later the area was settled by the descendants of Waka Te Māmaru and Mataatua .
Whaling ships and other ships called Whangaroa from 1805 to 1809. After 66 crew members and passengers of the Boyd of Māori were killed in 1809 because the crew had flogged the son of their chief, the port was avoided and only called again in 1819. In June 1823 the Wesleyans founded a mission station in the port area .
On January 10, 1827, the chief Hongi Hika attacked the local Māori in order to gain control of the kauri trees growing in the area . Although he left the mission unmolested, the Wesleyans gave it up for fear of Hongi Hika attack . Hongi Hika died in Whangaroa in 1828 from a wound he had received 14 months earlier in the Hokianga Harbor area .
Europeans settled on the banks in the 1840s, and a Catholic Church missionary station was established in Waitaruke . The port became a center for logging and collecting kauri resin . Sawmills and shipyards sprang up , and between 1850 and 1909 over 100 schooners , brigantines and ketches were built here. Kauri tribes were chained together in rafts and hauled by steam tugs; the journey to Auckland took three days. In the early 20th century, there was a whaling station in Sea Sick Bay near the southern end of the port approach, which was relocated to Ranfurly Bay on the north side of the approach in the 1920s .
use
The Whangaroa Harbor is popular with anglers and sport fishermen and over the marina, which opened in 1997, tours are organized for deep sea fishing in the Pacific Ocean.
nature
There are extensive mangrove swamps in the southern part of the port , and some of the North Island's oldest fossils from the early Permian about 270 million years ago were found in the Whangaroa area .
See also
literature
- Robert Findlay Hay : Whangaroa Harbor District . In: Alexander Hare McLintock (Ed.): An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand . Wellington 1966 ( online [accessed April 20, 2017]).
Web links
- Whangaroa History . Whangaroa Community Development,accessed September 21, 2014.
- About Whangaroa Harbor / Kaeo . Far North District Council,accessed January 18, 2016.
- Whangaroa area . Department of Conservation,accessed April 20, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Robert Findlay Hay : Whangaroa Harbor District . In: Alexander Hare McLintock (Ed.): An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand . Wellington 1966 ( online [accessed April 20, 2017]).
- ↑ Longitudes and coordinates were measured with Google Earth.
- ↑ a b Topo250 maps - Northland East . Land Information New Zealand , accessed April 20, 2017 .
- ^ A b c Claudia Orange : Northland places - Whangaroa and district - Whangaroa Harbor . Ministry for Culture & Heritage , January 7, 2013, accessed January 17, 2016 .
- ↑ Rawiri Taonui : Ngāti Whātua - Origins . Ministry for Culture & Heritage , March 22, 2017, accessed April 20, 2017 .
- ↑ Rawiri Taonui : Muriwhenua tribes - Ngāti Kuri, Ngai Takoto, Te Patu and Ngāti Kahu . Ministry for Culture & Heritage , March 22, 2017, accessed April 20, 2017 .
- ↑ Paul Mahoney : Bush trams and other log transport - Moving kauri: dams and rafting . Ministry for Culture & Heritage , September 24, 2007, accessed April 20, 2017 .
- ^ Website of the Whangaroa Marina Trust . Retrieved April 20, 2017 .
- ↑ Hamish Campbell : Fossils - Oldest fossils - Paleozoic . Ministry for Culture & Heritage , June 12, 2006, accessed April 20, 2017 .