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Kerikeri (Māori: [kɛɾikɛɾi]) [3] is the second largest settlement in Northland, New Zealand. It is a tourist destination 240 kilometres (150 mi) north of Auckland and 80 kilometres (50 mi) north of Northland's only city, Whangārei .
Kerikeri Airport is used by light aircraft arriving or departing from New Zealand. Norfolk Island Airport is 903 km (488 nautical miles) north-west of Kerikeri, 754 km (407 nautical miles) to Nouméa in New Caledonia, or 900 km (486 nautical miles) to Lord Howe Island which can be used as a stepping stone to the Australian mainland.
Kerikeri, Bay of Islands. Stone Store (left), St James (rear), and the country's oldest surviving building, Mission House (right). According to Māori legend, the North Island of New Zealand was an enormous fish, caught by the demigod Māui. For this reason, Northland is sometimes referred to as "The tail of the fish", Te Hiku o Te Ika.
The Rainbow Falls, Māori name Waianiwaniwa, (Waters of the Rainbow), are a single-drop waterfall located on the Kerikeri River near Kerikeri in New Zealand.. Unlike most New Zealand waterfalls which are created by the erosion of soft rock, the Rainbow Falls are sited on a hard basalt layer of rock beside softer mudstone.
Mission House is situated where the Kerikeri River (right) meets the Kerikeri Inlet (Pacific Ocean). The old stone store bridge was located for decades where the ford can be seen, but was removed late in 2008.
Kerikeri Inlet is a settlement on the south side of the inlet of the same name in the Far North District of New Zealand.It is 10 km west of Kerikeri by road. [3]A private developer built a boat ramp and jetty at Windsor Point around 2000, but subsequently abandoned them.
The Kerikeri volcanic group covered the area from Kaikohe, Kerikeri, to Whangārei. Activity began about 9 Ma, and the youngest cones are probably only tens of thousands of years old. Little Barrier Island is the emergent part of a large dacitic-rhyodacitic stratovolcano, formed through two eruptive periods (3 Ma, and 1.6–1.2 Ma). [7]
Aroha Island is a small island near Rangitane, which is about 12 km (7.5 mi) by road from Kerikeri in the Kerikeri Inlet, Bay of Islands, Northland, New Zealand. [1] The island covers an area of 12 ha. [2] It is owned and managed by the Queen Elizabeth II National Trust and is a major habitat for the North Island brown kiwi.