- Whangarei will host 2 Rugby World Cup games in 2011?
- Maori chiefs were once buried on Mt. Manaia?
- You can find 500 year old Kauri trees close to the center (Canopy Walk)?
- You can see protected bush from every spot in Whangarei
- Orca families visit Whangarei harbour in winter to eat stingrays?
- You can see a live Kiwi in the Whangarei Museum (his name is Manuiti)?
- Whangarei has 156kms of hand made stone walls?
- Cousteau thought the Poor Knights are a world top 10 dive site?
- Little Blue penguins live on the offshore islands?
- Whangarei has 270kms of coastline?
- More than 100 beaches and bays are waiting for you?
- Whangarei means something like “cherished harbour where the spermwhales gather”?
- No point in the district is over 40kms from the Pacific Ocean?
- Rikoriko (Poor Knights) is the largest sea cave in the world?
- Whangarei has the world’s largest collection of scented camellias?
- In mid-winter (August) we have 30 plants blooming in our garden alone?
- Whangarei is NZ’s warmest city?
- The biggest sundial south of the equator can be changed to show summertime?
- Whangarei has NZ's largest public collection of native ferns?
- The replica ship Endeavour was partly built in Whangarei?
- There are 5 different parks in Whangarei town centre?
- Whangarei has many orchid, avocado and citrus orchards?
- In Whangarei every fourth person is a Maori?
- The Whangarei region has 12 golf courses?
- Sea horses, penguins, seals, kiwi, stick insects, praying mantis, parrots, etc. live here?
- Parihaka and many other hills are extinct volcanoes?
- The Native Bird Recovery Centre rescues and cares for 1200 birds a year?
- The Rainbow Warrior comes here for maintenance work, as are many superyachts?
- Whangarei has the oldest grower's market in Australasia, with up to 6500 visitors (Saturday morning)?
- Whangarei decided to build a 9.5m$ Hundertwasser Museum after his original plans?
- Keith Urban was born in Whangarei?
- In Waipu some of the last 40 Fairy Terns in the world try to survive?
- A Whangarei built superyacht won the 2008 World Superyacht Awards? Whangarei grown jeweller Michael Hill’s superyacht also won an award there.
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