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88 relations: Andesite, Aongatete River, Arawa (canoe), Astrolabe Reef, Auckland Province, Ōpōtiki, Ōtara River, Bight (geography), Cape Runaway, Carl Sylvius Völkner, Coromandel Peninsula, Counties of New Zealand, Gate Pa, GNS Science, Haparapara River, Hawai River, Iwi, James Cook, Kaituna River, Katikati, Kereu River, List of schools in the Bay of Plenty Region, Maketu, Mayor Island / Tūhua, Māori language, Māori migration canoes, Māori mythology, Māori people, Mātaatua, Mōtītī Island, Mōtū River, Motunau / Plate Island, Moutohora Island, Musket Wars, MV Rena, New Zealand, New Zealand land confiscations, New Zealand Wars, Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāitai, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Pūkenga, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, North Island, Nukutere, Oceanic climate, Opape, ... Expand index (38 more) »
- Bays of New Zealand
- Landforms of the Bay of Plenty Region
- Whaling stations in New Zealand
Andesite
Andesite is a volcanic rock of intermediate composition.
See Bay of Plenty and Andesite
Aongatete River
The Aongatete River or Aongatete Stream is a river of New Zealand.
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Arawa (canoe)
Arawa was one of the great ocean-going, voyaging canoes in Māori traditions that was used in the migrations that settled New Zealand.
See Bay of Plenty and Arawa (canoe)
Astrolabe Reef
Astrolabe Reef is near Mōtītī Island, 20 kilometres NE of Tauranga, off the Bay of Plenty coast in New Zealand. Bay of Plenty and Astrolabe Reef are landforms of the Bay of Plenty Region.
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Auckland Province
The Auckland Province was a province of New Zealand from 1853 until the abolition of provincial government in 1876.
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Ōpōtiki
Ōpōtiki (from Ōpōtiki-Mai-Tawhiti) is a town in the eastern Bay of Plenty in the North Island of New Zealand.
Ōtara River
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Bight (geography)
In geography, a bight is a concave bend or curvature in a coastline, river or other geographical feature, or it may refer to a very open bay formed by such a feature.
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Cape Runaway
Cape Runaway (Whangaparāoa) is the eastern extremity of the Bay of Plenty in New Zealand's North Island. Bay of Plenty and Cape Runaway are landforms of the Bay of Plenty Region.
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Carl Sylvius Völkner
Carl Sylvius Völkner (– 2 March 1865) was a German-born Protestant missionary active in the North Island of New Zealand during the mid-nineteenth century. He is famous for being tried and executed for espionage by members of the Pai Mārire faith at his church in Ōpōtiki, in the Bay of Plenty.
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Coromandel Peninsula
The Coromandel Peninsula (Te Tara-o-te-Ika-a-Māui) on the North Island of New Zealand extends north from the western end of the Bay of Plenty, forming a natural barrier protecting the Hauraki Gulf and the Firth of Thames in the west from the Pacific Ocean to the east.
See Bay of Plenty and Coromandel Peninsula
Counties of New Zealand
A system of counties of New Zealand was instituted after the country dissolved its provinces in 1876, and these counties were similar to other countries' systems, lasting with little change (except mergers and other localised boundary adjustments) until 1989, when they were reorganised into district and city councils within a system of larger regions.
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Gate Pa
Gate Pa or Gate Pā is a suburb of Tauranga, in the Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand's North Island.
GNS Science
GNS Science (Te Pū Ao), officially registered as the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Limited, is a New Zealand Crown Research Institute.
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Haparapara River
The Haparapara River is a river in the Bay of Plenty area of New Zealand.
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Hawai River
The Hawai River is a river of New Zealand.
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Iwi
Iwi are the largest social units in New Zealand Māori society.
James Cook
Captain James Cook (– 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular.
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Kaituna River
The Kaituna River is in the Bay of Plenty region of the North Island of New Zealand.
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Katikati
Katikati is a town in New Zealand (North Island) located on the Uretara Stream near a tidal inlet towards the northern end of Tauranga Harbour, 28 kilometres south of Waihi and 40 kilometres northwest of Tauranga.
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Kereu River
The Kereu River is a river of New Zealand's northeastern North Island.
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List of schools in the Bay of Plenty Region
The Bay of Plenty Region is a region in the North Island of New Zealand.
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Maketu
Maketu is a small town on the Western Bay of Plenty coast in New Zealand.
Mayor Island / Tūhua
Mayor Island / Tūhua is a dormant shield volcano located off the Bay of Plenty coast of New Zealand's North Island.
See Bay of Plenty and Mayor Island / Tūhua
Māori language
Māori, or te reo Māori ('the Māori language'), commonly shortened to te reo, is an Eastern Polynesian language and the language of the Māori people, the indigenous population of mainland New Zealand.
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Māori migration canoes
Māori oral histories recount how their ancestors set out from their homeland in waka hourua, large twin-hulled ocean-going canoes (waka).
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Māori mythology
Māori mythology and Māori traditions are two major categories into which the remote oral history of New Zealand's Māori may be divided.
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Māori people
Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand (Aotearoa).
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Mātaatua
Mātaatua was one of the great voyaging canoes by which Polynesians migrated to New Zealand, according to Māori tradition.
See Bay of Plenty and Mātaatua
Mōtītī Island
Mōtītī Island is an island in the Bay of Plenty, off the coast of New Zealand's North Island.
See Bay of Plenty and Mōtītī Island
Mōtū River
The Mōtū River is a major waterway in the eastern part of the North Island of New Zealand.
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Motunau / Plate Island
Motunau / Plate Island is a small island in the Bay of Plenty, roughly off New Zealand's North Island at Okurei Point and a similar distance east-south-east from the much larger Mōtītī Island.
See Bay of Plenty and Motunau / Plate Island
Moutohora Island
Moutohora Island (previously known as Whale Island) (Moutohorā) is a small uninhabited island located off the Bay of Plenty coast of New Zealand's North Island, about north of the town of Whakatāne. Bay of Plenty and Moutohora Island are Whaling stations in New Zealand.
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Musket Wars
The Musket Wars were a series of as many as 3,000 battles and raids fought throughout New Zealand (including the Chatham Islands) among Māori between 1806 and 1845, after Māori first obtained muskets and then engaged in an intertribal arms race in order to gain territory or seek revenge for past defeats.
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MV Rena
MV Rena was a container ship owned by the Greek shipping company Costamare Inc. through one of its subsidiaries, Daina Shipping Co.
New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
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New Zealand land confiscations
The New Zealand land confiscations took place during the 1860s to punish the Kīngitanga movement for attempting to set up an alternative, Māori, form of government that forbade the selling of land to European settlers.
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New Zealand Wars
The New Zealand Wars (Ngā pakanga o Aotearoa) took place from 1845 to 1872 between the New Zealand colonial government and allied Māori on one side, and Māori and Māori-allied settlers on the other.
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Ngāi Tūhoe
Ngāi Tūhoe, often known simply as Tūhoe, is a Māori iwi of New Zealand.
See Bay of Plenty and Ngāi Tūhoe
Ngāi Te Rangi
Ngāi Te Rangi or Ngāiterangi is a Māori iwi, based in Tauranga, New Zealand.
See Bay of Plenty and Ngāi Te Rangi
Ngāitai
Ngāitai is a Māori iwi (tribe) centred around Tōrere in the eastern Bay of Plenty of New Zealand.
Ngāpuhi
Ngāpuhi (or Ngā Puhi) is a Māori iwi associated with the Northland regions of New Zealand centred in the Hokianga, the Bay of Islands, and Whangārei.
Ngāti Awa
Ngāti Awa is a Māori iwi (tribe) centred in the eastern Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand.
See Bay of Plenty and Ngāti Awa
Ngāti Pūkenga
Ngāti Pūkenga is a Māori iwi centred in Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand.
See Bay of Plenty and Ngāti Pūkenga
Ngāti Ranginui
Ngāti Ranginui is a Māori iwi (tribe) in Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.
See Bay of Plenty and Ngāti Ranginui
Ngāti Tūwharetoa
Ngāti Tūwharetoa is an iwi descended from Ngātoro-i-rangi, the priest who navigated the Arawa canoe to New Zealand.
See Bay of Plenty and Ngāti Tūwharetoa
North Island
The North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui, 'the fish of Māui', officially North Island or Te Ika-a-Māui or historically New Ulster) is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the larger but less populous South Island by Cook Strait.
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Nukutere
Nukutere was one of the Māori migration canoes that brought Polynesian migrants to New Zealand.
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Oceanic climate
An oceanic climate, also known as a marine climate or maritime climate, is the temperate climate sub-type in Köppen classification represented as Cfb, typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, generally featuring cool to warm summers and cool to mild winters (for their latitude), with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature.
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Opape
Opape is a small coastal settlement in the Ōpōtiki District of the Bay of Plenty Region on New Zealand's North Island.
Otahu River
The Otahu River is a river of the Coromandel Peninsula, in the Waikato Region of New Zealand's North Island.
See Bay of Plenty and Otahu River
Poverty Bay
Poverty Bay (Māori: Tūranganui-a-Kiwa), officially named Tūranganui-a-Kiwa / Poverty Bay, is the largest of several small bays on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island to the north of Hawke Bay. Bay of Plenty and Poverty Bay are Whaling stations in New Zealand.
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Provinces of New Zealand
The provinces of the Colony of New Zealand existed as a form of sub-national government.
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Rangitaiki River
The Rangitaiki River is the longest river in the Bay of Plenty region in New Zealand's North Island.
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Raukokore River
The Raukokore River is a river in the northeast of New Zealand's North Island.
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Rena oil spill
The Rena oil spill occurred off the coast of Tauranga, New Zealand in October 2011.
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Rohe
The Māori people of New Zealand use the word to describe the territory or boundaries of tribes (although some divide their into several.
Samuel Marsden
Samuel Marsden (25 June 1765 – 12 May 1838) was an English-born priest of the Church of England in Australia and a prominent member of the Church Missionary Society.
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Stratovolcano
A stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, is a conical volcano built up by many layers (strata) of hardened lava and tephra.
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Submarine volcano
Submarine volcanoes are underwater vents or fissures in the Earth's surface from which magma can erupt.
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Tainui (canoe)
Tainui was one of the great ocean-going canoes in which Polynesians migrated to New Zealand approximately 800 years ago.
See Bay of Plenty and Tainui (canoe)
Tarawera River
The Tarawera River is in the Bay of Plenty Region in the North Island of New Zealand.
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Tauranga
Tauranga is a coastal city in the Bay of Plenty Region and the fifth-most populous city of New Zealand, with an urban population of, or roughly 3% of the national population.
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Tauranga Harbour
Tauranga Harbour is the natural tidal harbour that surrounds Tauranga CBD and the Mount Maunganui area of Tauranga, New Zealand, and which flows into the Pacific Ocean at Mount Maunganui.
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Tākitimu
Tākitimu was a waka (canoe) with whakapapa throughout the Pacific particularly with Samoa, the Cook Islands, and New Zealand in ancient times.
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Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand is an online encyclopedia established in 2001 by the New Zealand Government's Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
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Te Arawa
Te Arawa is a confederation of Māori iwi and hapū (tribes and sub-tribes) of New Zealand who trace their ancestry to the Arawa migration canoe (waka).
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Te Paepae o Aotea
Te Paepae o Aotea, also known the Volkner Rocks (named after Carl Sylvius Völkner), are a group of andesitic rock stacks and pinnacles located northwest of Whakaari/White Island in New Zealand's Bay of Plenty.
See Bay of Plenty and Te Paepae o Aotea
Te Puke
Te Puke is a town located 18 kilometres southeast of Tauranga in the Western Bay of Plenty of New Zealand.
Te Whānau-ā-Apanui
Te Whānau-ā-Apanui is a Māori iwi (tribe) located in the eastern Bay of Plenty and East Coast regions of New Zealand's North Island.
See Bay of Plenty and Te Whānau-ā-Apanui
Temperate climate
In geography, the temperate climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes (approximately 23.5° to 66.5° N/S of Equator), which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth.
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The New Zealand Herald
The New Zealand Herald is a daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment, and considered a newspaper of record for New Zealand.
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Toi-te-huatahi
Toi-te-huatahi, also known as Toi and Toi-kai-rākau, is a legendary Māori tupuna (ancestor) of many Māori iwi (tribes) from the Bay of Plenty area, including Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Te Rangi and Ngāi Tūhoe.
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Volcanic cone
Volcanic cones are among the simplest volcanic landforms.
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Volcanic gas
Volcanic gases are gases given off by active (or, at times, by dormant) volcanoes.
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Waihi Beach
Waihi Beach is a coastal town at the western end of the Bay of Plenty in New Zealand's North Island.
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Wainui River (Bay of Plenty)
The Wainui River is a river of the Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand's North Island.
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Waioeka River
The Waioeka River is found in the north of New Zealand's North Island.
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Waiotahe River
The Waiotahe River (formerly Waiotahi River) is a river of the Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand's North Island.
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Wairoa River (Bay of Plenty)
The Wairoa River runs north into Tauranga Harbour at the western end of the Bay of Plenty in New Zealand's North Island.
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Wentworth River
The Wentworth River is a river of the Coromandel Peninsula, in the Waikato Region of New Zealand's North Island.
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Whakaari / White Island
Whakaari / White Island (Te Puia Whakaari, lit. "the dramatic volcano"), also known as White Island or Whakaari, is an active andesite stratovolcano situated from the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand, in the Bay of Plenty.
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Whakatāne
Whakatāne is a town located in the Bay of Plenty Region in the North Island of New Zealand, east of Tauranga and northeast of Rotorua.
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Whakatāne River
The Whakatāne River or Ōhinemataroa is a major river of the Bay of Plenty region in the North Island of New Zealand.
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Whakatōhea
Te Whakatōhea is a Māori iwi of the eastern Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand.
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Whangamatā
The town of Whangamatā is on the southeast coast of the Coromandel Peninsula in the North Island of New Zealand.
See Bay of Plenty and Whangamatā
Wharekawa River
The Wharekawa River is a river of the Coromandel Peninsula, in the Waikato Region of New Zealand's North Island.
See Bay of Plenty and Wharekawa River
2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption
On 9 December 2019, Whakaari / White Island, an active stratovolcano island in New Zealand's northeastern Bay of Plenty region, explosively erupted.
See Bay of Plenty and 2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption
See also
Bays of New Zealand
- Bay of Plenty
- Bruce Bay
- Delaware Bay (New Zealand)
- Hawke Bay
- Jackson Bay
- Karamea Bight
- North Taranaki Bight
- Papatea Bay
- South Taranaki Bight
Landforms of the Bay of Plenty Region
- Astrolabe Reef
- Bay of Plenty
- Cape Runaway
- Frying Pan Lake
- Hamurana
- Inferno Crater Lake
- Kaimai Range
- Mamaku Ranges
- Maunga Kākaramea
- Mount Maunganui
- Papatea Bay
- Pink and White Terraces
- Pōhutu Geyser
- Raukūmara Range
- Rurima Island
- Tarawera Falls
- Taupō Volcanic Zone
- Tikitere Graben
- Waimangu Geyser
- Waimangu Volcanic Rift Valley
- Whakarewarewa
- Whakatane Graben
- Whakatāne Graben
Whaling stations in New Zealand
- Arapaoa Island
- Auckland Islands
- Banks Peninsula
- Bay of Plenty
- Campbell Island, New Zealand
- Cloudy Bay
- Cook Strait
- Doubtless Bay
- Foveaux Strait
- Hawke's Bay
- Kapiti Island
- Karitane
- Moeraki
- Moutohora Island
- Northland Region
- Otago Peninsula
- Otakou
- Peraki
- Port Underwood
- Poverty Bay
- Rakituma / Preservation Inlet
- Taieri Island / Moturata
- Tautuku Peninsula
- Waikouaiti
- Wairoa
- Whangaparapara
References
Also known as Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand, Bay of Plenty (region), Bay of Plenty NZ, Bay of Plenty New Zealand, Bay of Plenty, NZ, Bay of Plenty, North Island, Environment B.O.P, Te Moana a Toi Te Huatahi, Te Moana a Toi Te Huatahi Region, Te Moana-a-Toi, The Bay of Plenty, Toi Te Ora - Public Health.