The Best Attractions In Ngatapa

The Ngatapa Branch was a secondary branch line railway 18,50 km long that for a short time formed part of the national rail network in Poverty Bay in the North Island of New Zealand. The Ngatapa branch diverged from the Moutohora branch line about 6 km from Gisborne and ran a further 12.5 km across the coastal flat to a terminus at Ngatapa. Built to the New Zealand standard 3 ft 6 in gauge the branch was originally authorized as part of the proposed inland route for the Wairoa to Gisborne section of the Palmerston North – Gisborne Line. However, in 1924, an engineer's report recommended that the then new isolated section between Wairoa and Waikokopu ...
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The Best Attractions In Ngatapa

1. 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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2. Morere Hot Springs Morere
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. Waiotahe Beach Opotiki
5. Wrights Vineyard & Winery Manutuke
6. Cooks Cove Walkway Tolaga Bay
7. Millton Vineyards & Winery Manutuke

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Rere Rock Slide Gisborne NZ

Rere Rockslide is an easy 50 kilometre country drive from Gisborne featuring, shady picnic spots, rock pools and a 60 metre long natural water slide.

The Best Attractions In Ngatapa