Kaipara Bar/Entrance
New Zealand /
Northland /
Ruawai /
World
/ New Zealand
/ Northland
/ Ruawai
World / New Zealand / Auckland / Waitakere
shoal, sandbar, strait / channel / passage / narrows, invisible
The Kaipara Harbour was important in the mid to late 19th Century, but the bar was always a formidable barrier for shipping. Improved road transport, and the decline of native timber logging, have laft it devoid of shipping.
My ships have been wrecked on the bar, and it is still dangerous.
My ships have been wrecked on the bar, and it is still dangerous.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaipara_Harbour
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 36°24'53"S 174°10'12"E
- Bay of Islands 140 km
- Hokianga Harbour 141 km
- Takou Bay 153 km
- Whangaroa Harbour 162 km
- Doubtless Bay 188 km
- Rangaunu Harbour 190 km
- Karikari Peninsula 199 km
- Spirits Bay 257 km
- Aupouri Peninsula 264 km
- Manawatāwhi/Three Kings Islands 323 km
- Papakanui Spit 3.7 km
- Manukapua Island 7.5 km
- Lake Humuhumu 10 km
- Waikiri Creek 12 km
- Lake Rototoa 12 km
- Te Korowai-o-Te-Tonga/South Kaipara Peninsula 17 km
- Omokoiti Salt Marshes 19 km
- Tuhirangi 24 km
- Hinamoki 31 km
- Matarua Golf Course 36 km