 Rugged east coast near Whangaroa | |
| Northland Province | |
| Capital | Whangarei |
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| Residents | 179.100 (2018), 179.076 (2018) |
| surface | 13,789 km² |
| website | unknown |
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Northland is the northernmost province of the North islandNew Zealand north of the Auckland region. It borders the Pacific Ocean to the east and part of the Indian Ocean, the Tasman Sea, to the west. The region offers popular beach and holiday resorts on both coasts as well as rural holiday resorts in the interior of the peninsula.
Regions and places
The Northland region comprises the three areas
Far North District
It is located in the very north of the peninsula and extends from Hokianga Harbor to the northernmost points on the narrow peninsula Aupouri
- 1 Kaikohe
- Capital of the Far North District - 2 Kaitaia
- The place in the Far North District is at the south end of Ninety Mile Beach - 3 Cape Reinga - New Zealand's northernmost accessible point on the Aupouri Peninsula.
- Hokianga - a deeply cut bay on the west coast
- Ninety Mile Beach - 88 km of beach that is part of the public highway network. It extends from Kaitaia along the west coast of the Aupouri peninsula to Cape Reinga.
- Doubtless Bay - over 70 km of beach on the Pacific coast between Taipa Bay and the Karikari peninsula
- Bay of Islands - picturesque island landscape with historical significance. Close to the tourist area 4 Paihia is Waitangiwhere a treaty between England and the Maori was signed in 1840, thereby establishing the state of New Zealand.
Whangarei District
- 5 Whangarei - Capital of the district of the same name and regional supply center for the surrounding region
- Poor Knights Islands - According to Jacques Cousteau, the Poor Knights Islands are one of the top ten dive sites in the world. The starting point for trips to the Poor Knights is Tutukaka north of Whangarei.
Kaipara District
It is located in the west of the peninsula, its coast is also called Kauri Coast designated. In the south it borders with the Kaipara Harbor to the Auckland region.
- 6 Dargaville is the main town.
- Waipoua Kauri Forest - Primeval forest in which the second largest trees on earth grow.
- 7 Matakohe - Settlement with one Kauri Museum
- Mangawhai - Located on the east coast, white beaches for swimming and surfing, diving area at the Hen-and-Chicken-Islands
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background
geography
Northland Province is a 350 km long, narrow peninsula that separates the Tasman Sea from the Pacific. The climate is subtropical, so palm trees and citrus fruits thrive here. The landscape of the east and west coasts is very different. The east coast is lined with islets and headlands, and only small bays provide access to the sea. The west coast, on the other hand, is practically one long, dune-lined beach. Only a few fjords (harbors) interrupt the beach. The interior of the country is mostly hilly.
Cowrie
The east of Northland was once defined by the use of the vast Kauri forests. Kauri trees reach an old age, their wood is largely free of knots and of high quality, but it grows relatively slowly. The resin from these trees forms a type of amber known as Kauri gum. The Maoris revered these trees, they used them to a limited extent for building their boats, called Waka. The high quality of the wood led the white immigrants to overexploitation, and the ability to extract kauri gum was in fact the death sentence for many forests. In some swampy areas, entire kauri forests sank thousands of years ago, they were still the coveted target of around 1900 Diggerwho dug up the resin and trunks often from several meters deep. Today kauri trees are protected, the kauri wood, which is still in trade today, comes from sunken trunks.
Since the destruction of the kauri forests and the end of the commercial mining of kauri gum, the east coast has suffered economically, as agriculture has never achieved the importance it has on the west coast.
history
The first encounters between Maori and Europeans took place in the Bay of Islands instead of. The province of Northland is also historically significant, as New Zealand's most important document, the Treaty of Waitangi, was signed here. This treaty replaces the constitution in New Zealand to this day.
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getting there
The main artery is the 
SH 1, that of Auckland comes and goes to Cape Reinga. In the west of the region is the 
SH 12 the most important traffic connection. One possible itinerary is the Twin Coast Discovery Highway
mobility
Tourist Attractions
