Horeke

Horeke is a small isolated town on the shores of the Harbour, in the of .
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  • Type: Hamlet
  • Description: locality in Far North District, Northland Region, New Zealand
  • Also known as: Horoeke

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mangungu Mission House and Wairere Boulders.

is a privately owned nature reserve and tourist attraction at Horeke in the south region of , New Zealand. The property contains geologically rare rock formations.

Museum
was the second mission station established in New Zealand by the Wesleyan Missionary Society. Located near Horeke, in the , it was founded in 1828 by the missionaries John Hobbs and James Stack after the first WMS mission station in the country had been sacked the previous year.

Horeke

Latitude
-35.3567° or 35° 21′ 24″ south
Longitude
173.5932° or 173° 35′ 36″ east
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
Open location code
4VPMJHVV+87
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7764482313
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
2189795
Wiki­data ID
Q5903066
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Turkish—“Horeke” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: Horeke
  • French: Horeke
  • Malay: Horeke
  • Maori: Horeke
  • Maori: Hōreke
  • Turkish: Horeke

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Horeke”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.