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Specialty Museum Attractions In Mangonui

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Taipa-Mangonui or Taipa Bay-Mangonui refers to the string of small resort settlements Taipa, Cable Bay, Coopers Beach, and Mangonui which lie along the coast of Doubtless Bay - and are so close together that they have run together to form one larger settlement. The area had a combined population in 2013 of 1662.The miniature conurbation lies 150 kilometres by road northwest of Whangarei , and 20 kilometres northeast of Kaitaia. It is thus the northernmost centre in New Zealand with a population of above 1000, even though it is nearly 100 kilometres southeast of the northernmost tip of the North Island.
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Specialty Museum Attractions In Mangonui

  • 1. Butler Point Whaling Museum Mangonui
    Butler Point Whaling Museum is located at Hihi, near Mangonui in New Zealand’s Doubtless Bay, a centre for whaling fleets in the 1820s–1850s.The museum comprises the house built in the 1840s by early settler William Butler, an earlier Church Missionary Society house from the Waimate Mission moved to the site by Butler, both fitted with original furniture.and a recently built whaling museum, with a restored fully equipped whaling boat, tryworks, a collection of harpoons, models, scrimshaw and artefacts from the whalers who called into Doubtless Bay, including Charles W. Morgan. There are also substantial gardens and grounds surrounding the museum, including a 10.9 metre circumference pohutukawa tree, claimed to be the world’s largest. The owners and curators, , live in the grounds.
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