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    (5.0 mi) south of Tākaka. Located in the Tākaka valley, East Tākaka sits on the eastern side of the Tākaka River. The area developed from the 1860s,...
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    outflow of the underground stream. They suspected that The Gorge Creek at East Tākaka was the outlet as the flow rate matched, and green dye released inside...
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    The Tākaka Aerodrome serves the town of Tākaka, in the South Island of New Zealand. Tākaka Aerodrome is northwest of the town. State Highway 60 runs just...
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  • collingwood-area.school.nz. "Our History Dovedale School". dovedale.school.nz. "East Takaka School". Nelson Provincial Museum. Retrieved 14 January 2022. "Foxhill...
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    The Takaka Tramway was a narrow gauge light railway that operated in the Tākaka Valley, Golden Bay, New Zealand, from 1882 to 1905, linking farms and...
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    Motueka (redirect from Motueka East)
    areas. Extensive limestone cave systems (including Harwoods Hole in the Tākaka Hill area north of Motueka) attract cavers and rock climbers. Sea kayaking...
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    Abel Tasman (category Maritime history of the Dutch East India Company)
    pulp and paper producer in Kawerau, New Zealand. Abel Tasman Drive, in Tākaka. The former passenger/vehicle ferry Abel Tasman. The Able Tasmans – an indie...
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    Golden Bay / Mohua (category Maritime history of the Dutch East India Company)
    over the Tākaka Hill isolating Golden Bay from the rest of the South Island. The road over Tākaka Hill was closed by 16 landslides. Tākaka lost electricity...
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    deliberately designed to display New Zealand materials; the building is faced with Tākaka marble, with a base course of Coromandel granite. Major architectural features...
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    Tarakohe and Tata Beach. It is approximately 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) north-east of Tākaka. It is mostly made up of holiday homes. The settlement is named for...
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    plains, and is sliced by such major rivers as the Buller, Motueka, Aorere, Tākaka and Wairoa. The limestone-rich area around Mount Owen and Mount Arthur is...
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    Carterton (5,980) Featherston (2,760) Greytown (2,940) Martinborough (2,050) Tākaka (1,420) Motueka (8,300) Māpua (1,710) Wakefield (2,680) Brightwater (2,390)...
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  • Queenstown Rai Valley Rangiora Reefton Rolleston Ross Saint Arnaud Seddon Tākaka Tapawera Te Anau Temuka Timaru Twizel Wakefield Wānaka Westport Whataroa...
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    fined $500. He later worked in property development in Tākaka. He died on 3 October 2006 at Tākaka and is buried at Wakapuaka Cemetery in Nelson. Wynn 1981...
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  • settlement in the South Island is Pūponga, close to the foot of Farewell Spit. Tākaka is the northernmost South Island urban area with at least 1000 people, and...
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    Northland) Tutamoe – 770 m (2,530 ft) (second highest point in Northland) Tākaka Hill – 760 m (2,490 ft) Ngongotahā – 757 m (2,484 ft) Mount Karioi – 756 m...
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    then Te Piki Mai on to the city's centre. Over 100 people protested in Tākaka in support of the hīkoi. The Hīkoi took nine days to reach Wellington after...
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  • National Park. Once it reaches the Takaka Plains it flows northeast to reach the Tākaka River eight kilometres south of Tākaka, just downstream where State...
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  • 313 Riverton Riverton 234 Roxburgh Roxburgh, Millars Flat 446 Takaka Collingwood 524 Takaka 525 Te Anau 249 Timaru Timaru, Temuka, Pleasant Point, 612,...
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  • (rural) 70 – Nelson, Richmond, Brightwater, Mapua, Wakefield 71 – Motueka, Takaka 72 – Blenheim, Picton 73 – Cheviot, Kaikoura, Hanmer Springs 74 – Rangiora...
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    topography along the coastal part of the northern half of the region. The Takaka Terrane contains a vast variety of different sedimentary and igneous rocks...
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    427 ha (23,290 acres). The spit is located about 50 km (31 mi) north of Tākaka and 20 km (12 mi) from Collingwood. The small settlement of Pūponga is situated...
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    Examiner told of three-toed footprints measuring 36 cm (14 in) between Tākaka and Riwaka that were found by a surveying party; and finally in 1878, the...
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    catchment is bounded by the hamlet Rototai, Tākaka township, State Highway 60, the shallow ridge north-east of Rāmeka Creek, the Pikikirunga Range up to...
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  • children were the first European settlers in Golden Bay at Motupipi, east of Tākaka, New Zealand. Lovell was described in her biography as a homemaker,...
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  • Australia and Western Australia Yarrangobilly Caves area, New South Wales Takaka Hill, Tasman Region (South Island) Mount Owen, Tasman Region (South Island)...
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  • Oceanic Manawatū-Wanganui Region East Oceanic Tasman Region Golden Bay/Mohua Inlets Golden Bay Tākaka Pohara-Abel Tasman Tākaka Hills Kaiteriteri-Riwaka Upper...
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    be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. North-west of Nelson, in the Upper Takaka Valley, is New Zealand's only commercially harvested asbestos mine. A low-grade...
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    Nelson to Fiordland. The Western Province is divided into the Buller and Takaka terranes which formed in mid-Cambrian to Devonian time (510–400 Ma). This...
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  • Barrier Air GBA BARRIER Auckland Airport Golden Bay Air G1 GBY GOLDEN BAY Takaka Aerodrome Originair OG OGN ORIGIN Nelson Airport Sounds Air S8 SDA SOUNDSAIR...
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