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Kawakawa is a small town in the Bay of Islands area of the Northland Region of New Zealand. Kawakawa developed as a service town when coal was found there in the 1860s, but coal mining ceased in the early 20th century. The economy is now based on farming. [3] The town is named after the kawakawa shrub. [4]
Piper excelsum (formerly known as Macropiper excelsum) of the pepper family (Piperaceae) and commonly known as kawakawa, is a small tree of which the subspecies P. excelsum subsp. excelsum is endemic to New Zealand; [3] the subspecies P. e. subsp. psittacorum is found on Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island and the Kermadec Islands.
Kawakawa may refer to: Kawakawa, New Zealand, a town; Kawakawa River; Kawakawa (fern) (Blechnum fluviatile) Kawakawa (fish) (Euthynnus affinis) Kawakawa (tree ...
Global capture production of Kawakawa (Euthynnus affinis) in thousand tonnes from 1950 to 2022, as reported by the FAO [3]Euthynnus affinis, the mackerel tuna, little tuna, eastern little tuna, wavyback skipjack tuna, kawakawa, [4] or tongkol komo is a species of ray-finned bony fish in the family Scombridae, or mackerel family.
Kawakawa Bay is an east coast bay and settlement in the Franklin area of New Zealand's Auckland Region. It is located on the western side and northern end of the Firth of Thames, the southern side of the Hauraki Gulf, and north of the Hunua Ranges. [3] The bay takes its name from Kawakawa trees which line the coastline. [3] [better source needed]
The Oruanui eruption (also known as the Kawakawa eruption or Kawakawa/Oruanui event) of TaupÅ Volcano in New Zealand about 25,700 years ago was the world's most recent supereruption, and its largest phreatomagmatic eruption characterised to date.
Kawakawa railway station was a station on the Opua Branch in New Zealand. [ 1 ] and is the terminus of the Bay of Islands Vintage Railway (BoIVR) in the small town of Kawakawa . It was also the terminus of the oldest railway on the North Island , opened in 1867, [ 2 ] before being joined to the rest of the North Auckland Line in 1912.
The Kawakawa River is in the Northland Region of New Zealand's North Island. It flows predominantly eastward to Opua , where it joins the Waikare Inlet to flow into the Veronica Channel at the southern end of the Bay of Islands .