Whirinaki
Whirinaki is a locality on the Whirinaki River in the south Hokianga, in Northland, New Zealand. The name means "to lean against a support". Highway 12 runs through it. Opononi lies to the south west, and Rawene lies to the north east.- Type: Hamlet with 200 residents
- Description: locality in Far North District, Northland Region, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Whirinaki, Northland”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Koutu and Omanaia.
Koutu
Koutu is a settlement on the Koutu Peninsula between Rawene and Opononi on the Hokianga Harbour in the North Island of New Zealand.Omanaia
Locality
Omanaia is a settlement in the Hokianga area of Northland, New Zealand. It is part of the Hokianga South statistical area, which covers the southern side of Hokianga Harbour between Rawene and Koutu. Omanaia is situated 6 km east of Whirinaki.
Opononi
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Opononi and Omapere are two small towns linked by a ribbon of development on the Hokianga Harbour, west of Rawene, in the North Island of New Zealand.
Whirinaki
- Category: locality
- Location: Far Far North, Northland, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-35.4726° or 35° 28′ 21″ southLongitude
173.46171° or 173° 27′ 42″ eastPopulation
200Elevation
122 metres (400 feet)Open location code
4VPMGFG6+XMOpenStreetMap ID
node 9149928738OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
2179161Wikidata ID
Q2566771
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Whirinaki” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Whirinaki”
- Dutch: “Whirinaki, Northland”
- German: “Whirinaki”
- Maori: “Whirinaki”
- Polish: “Whirinaki”
- Turkish: “Whirinaki”
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