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Whakatane

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Whakatane (alt.; Maori: "Whakatāne") is a town in the eastern Bay of Plenty Region in the North Island of New Zealand, 90 km east of Tauranga and 89 km north-east of Rotorua, at the mouth of the Whakatane River. [1]

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Air Chathams

Air Chathams Limited is an airline based in Te One, the Chatham Islands, New Zealand.

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Albert Oliphant Stewart

Albert Oliphant Stewart (16 July 1884 – 3 April 1958) was a notable New Zealand tribal leader, law clerk, interpreter, local politician, rate collector.

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Alexander Peebles

Alexander Peebles (10 January 1856 – 11 April 1934) was a New Zealand carrier, bush contractor, prospector, mine manager, farmer, local politician and businessman.

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Anne Tolley

Anne Merrilyn Tolley (née Hicks, born 1 March 1953) is a New Zealand politician and member of the New Zealand House of Representatives representing the National Party.

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Auckland

Auckland is a city in New Zealand's North Island.

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Bay of Plenty

The Bay of Plenty (Te Moana-a-Toi) is a large bight in the northern coast of New Zealand's North Island.

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Benji Marshall

Benjamin Quentin "Benji" Marshall (born 25 February 1985) is a New Zealand professional rugby league footballer.

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Cape Runaway

Cape Runaway is the eastern extremity of the Bay of Plenty in New Zealand's North Island.

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Carter Holt Harvey

Carter Holt Harvey Limited is a privately owned New Zealand company controlled by Rank Group Limited, the corporate vehicle of the country's richest man, Graeme Hart.

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Chiba Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region, and the Greater Tokyo Area.

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Circa

Circa, usually abbreviated c., ca. or ca (also circ. or cca.), means "approximately" in several European languages (and as a loanword in English), usually in reference to a date.

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Common Era

Common Era or Current Era (CE) is one of the notation systems for the world's most widely used calendar era – an alternative to the Dionysian AD and BC system.

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East Coast (New Zealand electorate)

East Coast is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives.

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East Coast Main Trunk

| The East Coast Main Trunk (ECMT) is a railway line in the North Island of New Zealand, originally running between Hamilton and Taneatua via Tauranga, connecting the Waikato with the Bay of Plenty.

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Enclave and exclave

An enclave is a territory, or a part of a territory, that is entirely surrounded by the territory of one other state.

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Eve Rimmer

Eva Marion "Eve" Rimmer (3 April 1937 – 23 November 1996) was born in Whakatane, New Zealand and was a New Zealand athlete.

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Forestry

Forestry is the science and craft of creating, managing, using, conserving, and repairing forests, woodlands, and associated resources to meet desired goals, needs, and values for human and environment benefits.

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Gunma Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region.

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HMS Endeavour

HMS Endeavour, also known as HM Bark Endeavour, was a British Royal Navy research vessel that Lieutenant James Cook commanded to Australia and New Zealand on his first voyage of discovery from 1768 to 1771.

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Ian Shearer

Ian John Shearer (born 10 December 1941) is a former New Zealand politician of the National Party.

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James Cook

Captain James Cook (7 November 1728Old style date: 27 October14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.

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Joseph Ward

Sir Joseph George Ward, 1st Baronet of Wellington, (26 April 1856 – 8 July 1930) was a New Zealand politician who served as the 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1906 to 1912 and from 1928 to 1930.

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Judy Turner

Judith Anne Turner (born 2 August 1956) is a New Zealand politician who was the deputy leader of United Future New Zealand.

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Kamagaya

is a city located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan.

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Kawerau

Kawerau is a town in the Bay of Plenty region of the North Island of New Zealand.

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Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton

Alice Lynne "Lindy" Chamberlain-Creighton (née Murchison; born 4 March 1948) is a New Zealand-born woman who was wrongfully convicted in one of Australia's most publicised murder trials.

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Lisa Carrington

Lisa Carrington (born 23 June 1989) is a New Zealand flatwater canoer.

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List of sovereign states

This list of sovereign states provides an overview of sovereign states around the world, with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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Margaret Mahy

Margaret Mahy, ONZ (21 March 1936 – 23 July 2012) was a New Zealand author of children's and young adult books.

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Mayor of Whakatane

The Mayor of Whakatane is the head of the municipal government in Whakatane, New Zealand, and presides over the Whakatane District Council.

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Māori people

The Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand.

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Mātaatua

Mātaatua was one of the great voyaging canoes by which Polynesians migrated to New Zealand, according to Māori tradition.

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Mike Moore (New Zealand politician)

Michael Kenneth Moore (born 28 January 1949), commonly known as Mike Moore, is a former New Zealand politician and union organiser.

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Moutohora Island

Moutohora Island or Whale Island (Moutohorā in Māori) is a small uninhabited island located off the Bay of Plenty coast of New Zealand's North Island, about north of the town of Whakatane.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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New Zealand National Party

The New Zealand National Party (Rōpū Nāhinara o Aotearoa), shortened to National (Nāhinara) or the Nats, is a centre-right political party in New Zealand.

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New Zealand Wars

The New Zealand Wars were a series of armed conflicts that took place in New Zealand from 1845 to 1872 between the New Zealand government and the Māori.

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North Island

The North Island (Māori: Te Ika-a-Māui) is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the slightly larger but much less populous South Island by Cook Strait.

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Northern Steamship Company

The Northern Steam Ship Company Ltd (NSS) served the northern half of the North Island of New Zealand from 1881 to 1974.

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Ohope Beach

Ohope Beach (Maori: "Ōhope") is a beach in the eastern Bay of Plenty, on the northeast coast of the North Island of New Zealand, six kilometres east and over the hill, from Whakatane.

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Opotiki

Opotiki (Ōpōtiki, from Ō Pōtiki mai Tawhiti) is a small town in the eastern Bay of Plenty in the North Island of New Zealand.

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The word pā (IPA) can refer to any Māori village or defensive settlement, but often refers to hill forts – fortified settlements with palisades and defensive terraces – and also to fortified villages.

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Queensland

Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Radio Bay of Plenty

Radio Bay of Plenty is a radio company based in Whakatane, New Zealand.

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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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Regions of New Zealand

New Zealand is divided into sixteen regions for local government purposes.

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Rotorua

Rotorua (Te Rotorua-nui-a-Kahumatamomoe "The second great lake of Kahumatamomoe") is a city on the southern shores of Lake Rotorua from which the city takes its name, located in the Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand's North Island.

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Rua Kenana Hepetipa

Rua Tapunui Kenana (1869–1937) was a Māori prophet, faith healer and land rights activist.

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Sarah Walker (BMX rider)

Sarah Walker (born 10 July 1988) is a New Zealand BMX racer of Māori and European descent.

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Shibukawa, Gunma

is a city in Gunma Prefecture, Japan.

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Stuff.co.nz

Stuff.co.nz is a New Zealand news website published by Fairfax Digital, a division of Fairfax New Zealand Ltd, a subsidiary of Australian company Fairfax Media Ltd.

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Sunair

Sunair is an airline based in New Zealand.

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Taneatua

Taneatua is a small town in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand's North Island.

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Taneatua Branch

The Taneatua Branch is a branch railway line from Hawkens Junction to Taneatua in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.

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Taneatua Express

The Taneatua Express was an express passenger train operated by the New Zealand Railways Department that ran between Auckland and Taneatua in the Bay of Plenty, serving centres such as Tauranga and Te Puke.

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Tauranga

Tauranga is the most populous city in the Bay of Plenty region of the North Island of New Zealand.

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Te Kooti

Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki (Gisborne, c. 1832–1893) was a Māori leader, the founder of the Ringatū religion and guerrilla fighter.

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Territorial authorities of New Zealand

Territorial authorities are the second tier of local government in New Zealand, below regional councils.

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Time in New Zealand

Time in New Zealand, by law, is divided into two standard time zones.

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Toi (name)

Toi is a fairly common man's name in Māori and other Polynesian languages.

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Tranz Rail

Tranz Rail, formally Tranz Rail Holdings Limited (New Zealand Rail Limited until 1995), was the main rail operator in New Zealand from 1991 until it was purchased by Toll Holdings in 2003.

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Urban areas of New Zealand

Statistics New Zealand defines urban areas of New Zealand for statistical purposes (they have no administrative or legal basis).

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Völkner incident

The Völkner incident describes the murder of the German-born Protestant missionary Carl Sylvius Völkner in New Zealand in 1865 and the consequent miscarriage of justice by the Government of New Zealand during the New Zealand Wars.

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Waka (canoe)

Waka are Māori watercraft, usually canoes ranging in size from small, unornamented canoes (waka tīwai) used for fishing and river travel, to large decorated war canoes (waka taua) up to long.

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Warwick, Queensland

Warwick is a town and locality in southeast Queensland, Australia, lying south-west of Brisbane.

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Whakaari / White Island

Whakaari / White Island 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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Whakatane

Whakatane (alt.; Maori: "Whakatāne") is a town in the eastern Bay of Plenty Region in the North Island of New Zealand, 90 km east of Tauranga and 89 km north-east of Rotorua, at the mouth of the Whakatane River.

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Whakatane Airport

Whakatane Airport is an airport serving the town of Whakatane and surrounding tourist attractions (Mount Tarawera, White Island) in New Zealand.

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Whakatane Astronomical Society

The Whakatane Astronomical Society is a voluntary, non-profit society for people interested in amateur astronomy in the Whakatane District of New Zealand.

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Whakatane Board Mills Line

The Whakatane Board Mills Line of 10 km length was opened about 1939 as a freight only line, and was sometimes referred to as a "private siding".

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Whakatane River

The Whakatane River is a major river of the Bay of Plenty Region in the North Island of New Zealand.

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1987 Edgecumbe earthquake

The 1987 Edgecumbe earthquake measured 6.5 on the moment magnitude scale and struck the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand at 1:42 pm on 2 March.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whakatane

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