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The City of Napier has a land area of 106 km 2 (41 sq mi) and a population density of 540.0 per square kilometre. Napier is the nexus of the largest wool centre in the Southern Hemisphere, and it has the primary export seaport for northeastern New Zealand – which is the largest producer of apples, pears, and stone fruit in New
On February 3, 1931, Napier and Hastings were devastated by New Zealand's worst natural disaster, an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter magnitude scale, which killed 256 people. Napier rebuilt and now the city is world-famous for its Art Deco buildings, and celebrates its heritage each February with the Art Deco Weekend.
Ahuriri is a suburb of the city of Napier, in the Hawke's Bay region of New Zealand's eastern North Island. [3] The area was a major site of Māori and European settlement, and the site of the Port of Napier until the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake. It has since been redeveloped as a mixed commercial and residential area. [4]
Napier, Hastings, Wairoa 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure . Hawke Bay ( Māori : Te Matau-a-Māui ), formerly named Hawke's Bay , [ 1 ] is a large bay on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand, [ 2 ] surrounded by the Hawke's Bay region.
Marae name Wharenui name Iwi and hapū Location Mataweka: Nohomaiterangi: Ngāti Kahungunu (Ngāi Toroiwaho, Ngāti Te Whatuiāpiti) Waipawa: Pourerere: No wharenui: Ngāti Kahungunu (Ngāi Te Ōatua, Ngāti Tamaterā) Blackhead: Pukehou Marae: Keke Haunga: Ngāti Kahungunu (Ngāti Kekehaunga, Ngāti Pukututu, Ngāti Te Whatuiāpiti) Pukehou ...
In response, Thomson gave prosaic Northumbrian names to them, often simply in the form of a Northumbrian dialectic name for an animal. [6] The Maniototo region around the town of Ranfurly is rife with such names as Kyeburn, Gimmerburn, Hoggetburn, and Wedderburn as a result. Ranfurly itself was originally called "Eweburn".
Twelve main urban areas (half of them officially cities) are in the North Island. From north to south, they are Whangārei, Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Rotorua, Gisborne, New Plymouth, Napier, Hastings, Whanganui, Palmerston North, and New Zealand's capital city Wellington, which is located at the south-west tip of the island.
Dutch map of 1657 showing western coastline of "Nova Zeelandia" No known pre-contact Māori name for New Zealand as a whole survives, although the Māori had several names for the North and South Islands, including Te Ika-a-Māui (the fish of Māui) for the North Island and Te Waipounamu (the waters of greenstone) and Te Waka o Aoraki (the canoe of Aoraki) for the South Island. [1]