Whareponga
Whareponga is a bay and rural community in the Gisborne District of New Zealand's North Island. It is located north of Waipiro Bay, and is the mouth of Whareponga Stream and Wharekaka Stream.Places of Interest
Highlights include Akuaku.
Akuaku
Ruins
Akuaku, also known as Aku Aku, was a settlement about halfway between Waipiro Bay and Whareponga in the East Coast region of New Zealand's North Island. Akuaku is situated 2½ km southwest of Whareponga.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Waipiro Bay and Ruatoria.
Waipiro Bay
Hamlet
Waipiro Bay is a small coastal settlement in the Gisborne District on the East Coast of the North Island of New Zealand. The name also refers to the bay that the settlement is built on. Waipiro Bay is situated 7 km southwest of Whareponga.
Ruatoria
Village
Ruatoria is a town in the Waiapu Valley of the Gisborne Region in the northeastern corner of New Zealand's North Island. The town was originally known as Cross Roads then Manutahi and was later named Ruatorea in 1913, after the Māori Master female grower Tōrea who had some of the finest storage pits in her Iwi at the time. Ruatoria is situated 10 km northwest of Whareponga.
Whareponga
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: locality in Gisborne District, New Zealand
- Category: locality
- Location: Gisborne District, East Coast, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-37.96817° or 37° 58′ 5″ southLongitude
178.37482° or 178° 22′ 29″ eastElevation
173 metres (568 feet)Open location code
4VJW29JF+PWOpenStreetMap ID
node 7816849216OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Maori to Turkish—“Whareponga” goes by many names.
- Maori: “Whareponga”
- Turkish: “Whareponga”
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