Whitianga

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Whitianga offers beach, nautical activities, sightseeing tours and boating in Mercury Bay.

Whitianga offers beach, nautical activities, sightseeing tours and boating in Mercury Bay. Wait for great shellfish and take one or two walks in the woods. Explore The Coromandel and you'll soon be in Whitianga, the capital of Mercury Bay. Whitianga was a wooden harbour when indigenous woods were cleared on the Peninsula in the 18th and early 1900s.

European vessels used Whitianga's deep water port to sail to carry precious cauri. When you' re in Whitianga in September, don't miss the Whitianga scallop festival - a pleasurable week-end with more than 60 grocery and winebar stands, sea grocery shows and contests that include shellfish.

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is a city on the Coromandel peninsula, in the Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island." Situated on Mercury Bay, on the northeast shore of the mainland. By June 2017, the city has a constant number of inhabitants of 4,930, making it the second biggest city on the Coromandel peninsula after Thames.

The Whitianga is an island on the easterly side of the Coromandel Peninsula, 208 km from Auckland, 93 km from the Thames and 42 km from Tairua. Buffalo Bay is on the Mercury Bay coastline along Buffalo Bay's 5 km east-facing Buffalo Bay. Downtown is at the south end of the shore.

The name Buffalo Beach is derived from HMS Buffalo, a Royal Navy vessel moored in Mercury Bay during a stormy weather. There is a liner boat from Whitianga to Ferry Landing near Cooks Beach. A 45 minutes ride around Whitianga Harbour is the alternate to the two minutes cruise. The Whitianga has been inhabited for more than a thousand years without interruption, since M?ori the trunk of the discoverer Kupe set tles here after his attendance around 950 AD.

The name Te Whitianga o Kupe is the city' s native place name and means Kupe' s intersection point. The Whitianga P?, situated on the riverside boat dock, is a remarkable location. The Whitianga Cliff has several boreholes carved into the boulder that were used as fireplaces, reservoirs and stockade wells.

The large protected cove was later re-named by Captain James Cook when he came here in November 1769 to watch the passage of Mercury. In Cook's diary - "My reason for entering here was the hope of finding a good port and the wish to be in a suitable place to watch the Mercury passage taking place at the ninth moment and being fully observable here when the days between 5 and 6 are free.

The Whitianga port was also called "River of Mangroves" by Cook and this area is still called "The River". At Cooks Beach, the Mercury transits are celebrated by a pile of Coromandel stone to tell the story: Observing the passage of Mercury, he gave this cove its name.

The HMS Buffalo is a Mercury Bay shipwreck; this was the first vessel to populate the Adelaide Society, which founded the town of Adelaide in South Australia. Whitianga has traditionally been a center for boating, cowrie grinding, flax grinding, goldmining and rubber trenching. Ocean-going ships of 2000 tonnes with a draft of 18" and deck cargoes of over one million ft of wood worked at the port entry.

Bigger vessels were dragged into the harbour from near Center Island. It has been predicted that more than 500 million foot of cowrie have been imported from Whitianga County over a span of sixty years. Whitianga today is the small local center for the east side of the Coromandel Peninsula and the Mercury Bay area.

Whitianga seen from the nearby hill. It is serviced by State Hwy 25, which runs the major expressway around the Coromandel Peninsula. There is also a small airport at Whitianga, which serves FlyStark with its aircraft Cessna 172 and GippsAero GA8 Airvan and Sunair with its aircraft Cessna 172 and Piper Anztec.

Overland buses [6] and Go Kiwi Shuttle[7] provide transport to Whitianga from the Thames, Auckland and other places on the Coromandel Peninsula and North Island. Whitianga Speed Festivals took place in 2009 and 2010. From 2009 to 2012 a New Year's Eve celebration and New Year' s Eve concerts called Coromandel Gold took place.