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The Best Attractions In Gisborne Region

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The Gisborne District is an area of northeastern New Zealand governed by the Gisborne District Council. A unitary authority , it is also known as the Gisborne Region. It is named after its largest settlement, the city of Gisborne. The region is also commonly referred to as the East Coast.The region is commonly divided into the East Cape and Poverty Bay. It is bounded by mountain ranges to the west, rugged country to the south, and faces east onto the Pacific Ocean. The district council and main administration centre is located in Fitzherbert Street, Gisborne.
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The Best Attractions In Gisborne Region

  • 1. East Cape Lighthouse Gisborne Region
    East Island / Whangaokeno is a small island approximately 2 km east of East Cape in the North Island of New Zealand. Reaching an elevation of 129 m , it was the original location for the East Cape Lighthouse, which was built in 1900. However, the island is prone to earthquakes and its steep cliffs cause numerous landslides. By 1920, the danger to the lighthouse was considered great enough to trigger a decision to move the lighthouse to the mainland. In 1922, the lighthouse was extinguished and relocated to its current position.
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  • 2. Rere Rockslide Gisborne
    Rere is a small community in the northeast of New Zealand's North Island. it is located in the upper valley of the Wharekopae River in remote country in the foothills of the Huiarau Range, inland from Gisborne. It is notable for the Rere Falls and Rere Rock Slide, both on the Wharekopae River. Rere Falls, while not very tall at 5 metres , is a picturesque 20 metres wide waterfall. It is possible to walk behind its cascading curtain of water, although the rock face can be slippery. Rere Rock Slide has been included in the NZ Automobile Association's 101 Must-do places for Kiwis. It is a smooth, natural rock formation 60 metres long, at an angle of about 30°, over which the Wharekopae River rushes like water in a giant water slide. With a little care, it can be slid down on boogie boards, t...
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  • 3. Tolaga Bay Historic Wharf Tolaga Bay
    Tolaga Bay is both a bay and small town on the East Coast of New Zealand's North Island located 45 kilometres northeast of Gisborne and 30 kilometres south of Tokomaru Bay. It was named Tolaga Bay by Lt. James Cook in 1769. Described as an obvious corruption of a Maori name, the exact derivation of the name is unclear. It may have been a misunderstanding of teraki or tarakaka, referring to the local south-westerly wind rather than the place. The original Māori name is Uawa Nui A Ruamatua , and some local residents now refer to the area as Hauiti, and themselves as Hauitians from the local iwi Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti. At the time of Cook's visit, according to Anne Salmond, here a famous school of learning that specialized in tribal lore and carving was sited... Tupaia, the Raiatean navigator a...
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  • 4. Gisborne Wine Centre Gisborne
    Gisborne is a city in northeastern New Zealand and the largest settlement in the Gisborne District . It has a population of 37,200 . The district council has its headquarters in Whataupoko, in the central city. The settlement was originally known as Turanga and renamed Gisborne in 1870 in honour of New Zealand Colonial Secretary William Gisborne.Gisborne is the antipode of Spanish municipality Alcadozo.
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  • 5. Kaiti Hill Gisborne
    Kaiti is a suburb of the New Zealand city of Gisborne. It is located immediately to the east of the city centre, on the opposing bank of the Waimata River. Kaiti Hill or Titirangi overlooks Poverty Bay with Young Nick's Head across the Bay. Titirangi also overlooks the city. The Turanganui River is below it, and separates Kaiti from the Gisborne Central Business District.Nearby Kaiti Beach is one of New Zealand's most historic spots, being the landing site of the Horouta waka. It brought ancestors of the tangata whenua to the region. In 1769 Captain James Cook, the first European to have set foot on New Zealand soil, also landed here. The Cook Landing Site is protected as a national reserve. The name kaiti comes from Māori words meaning to eat the edible parts of cabbage trees.
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  • 6. Eastwoodhill Arboretum Ngatapa
    Eastwoodhill is the national arboretum of New Zealand. It covers 131 hectares and is located 35 km northwest of Gisborne, in the hill country of Ngatapa. It was founded in 1910 by William Douglas Cook. Cook's life work would become the creation of a giant collection of Northern Hemisphere temperate climate zone trees in New Zealand – a dream that would eventually cost him all his money – buying and importing thousands of trees from New Zealand and British nurseries. When his health deteriorated in the 1960s, he sold his property to H. B. Williams, who established the Eastwoodhill Trust Board in 1975 as a charitable trust, donating the arboretum to the trust to safeguard it for future generations. Of all the arboreta of the Southern Hemisphere, Eastwoodhill Arboretum is said to have the...
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  • 8. Rere Falls Gisborne
    Rere is a small community in the northeast of New Zealand's North Island. it is located in the upper valley of the Wharekopae River in remote country in the foothills of the Huiarau Range, inland from Gisborne. It is notable for the Rere Falls and Rere Rock Slide, both on the Wharekopae River. Rere Falls, while not very tall at 5 metres , is a picturesque 20 metres wide waterfall. It is possible to walk behind its cascading curtain of water, although the rock face can be slippery. Rere Rock Slide has been included in the NZ Automobile Association's 101 Must-do places for Kiwis. It is a smooth, natural rock formation 60 metres long, at an angle of about 30°, over which the Wharekopae River rushes like water in a giant water slide. With a little care, it can be slid down on boogie boards, t...
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  • 14. Station Life In Rural New Zealand Gisborne
    Radio in New Zealand began in 1922, and is now dominated by almost 30 radio networks and station groups. The Government has dominated broadcasting since 1925, but through privatisation and deregulation have allowed commercial talk and music stations to reach large audiences. New Zealand also has several radio stations serving Māori tribes, Pacific Island communities, ethnic minorities, evangelical Christians and special interests. State-owned broadcaster Radio New Zealand reaches the broadest range of listeners with bilingual flagship broadcaster Radio New Zealand National. Several previously state-owned radio brands like top-rating talk station Newstalk ZB are now owned by NZME Radio, which operates eight networks on terrestrial radio and iHeartRadio. Ten radio networks are operated by M...
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