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

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 4.0.

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

Photo: David.awatere, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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″ south

Longitude

178.37482° or 178° 22′ 29″ east

Elevation

173 metres (568 feet)

Open location code

4VJW29JF+PW

OpenStreetMap ID

node 7816849216

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

GeoNames ID

2179225

Wikidata ID

Q25660836

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Maori to Turkish—“Whareponga” goes by many names.

Maori: “Whareponga”
Turkish: “Whareponga”

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