Wairoa River

The Wairoa River runs north into Tauranga Harbour at the western end of the Bay of Plenty in New Zealand's North Island.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Minden Peak and Tauranga Crossing.

Tauranga Crossing

Retail building

Photo: Panamitsu, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Tauranga Crossing is a shopping mall in Tauranga, New Zealand, located at 2 Taurikura Drive, Tauriko. It features more than 70 shops and 25 eateries. It has four anchor stores — Pak'nSave, The Warehouse, Warehouse Stationery, Noel Leeming.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tauriko and Minden.

Tauriko

Town

Tauriko is a suburb of Tauranga, in the Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand's North Island. According to Place Names of New Zealand by A. W. Reed and Peter Dowling, "Tauriko" is not a Māori name—the suburb was originally named Taurico after the Tauranga Rimu Company, with the spelling apparently altered to give the semblance of a Māori name.

Minden

Hamlet

Photo: Gadfium, CC0.

Minden is a rural community in the Western Bay of Plenty District and Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand's North Island. The peak that the area is named after was named after the 1759 Battle of Minden in Prussia by a soldier stationed in Tauranga in 1866 after the Tauranga campaign.

Greerton

Town

Photo: Pakoire, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Greerton is a major suburb of Tauranga, the largest city in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand. Greerton is named after Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Harpur Greer, commander of the British forces during the Battle of Gate Pā.

Wairoa River

Type: River
Category: body of water
Location: Auckland Region, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude

-37.73368° or 37° 44′ 1″ south

Longitude

176.07591° or 176° 4′ 33″ east

Elevation

8 metres (26 feet)

Open location code

4VJR738G+G9

OpenStreetMap ID

way 226203238

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=water

OpenStreetMap feature

water=river

GeoNames ID

6245018

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From French to German—“Wairoa River” goes by many names.

French: “Wairoa”
German: “Wairoa River”

Places with the Same Name

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Localities in the Area

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