Kerikeri

Kerikeri, the most important town in Northland, New Zealand, is a traveller vacation spot 240 kilometres north of Auckland and 80 kilometres north of the northern area's biggest town, Whangarei. It is frequently referred to as the Cradle of the Nation, as it became the site of the first everlasting venture station within the country, and it has a number of the maximum historic homes in the united states of america. A swiftly expanding centre of subtropical and allied horticulture, Kerikeri is in the Far North District of the North Island and lies on the western extremity of the Kerikeri Inlet, a northwestern arm of the Bay of Islands, where sparkling water of the Kerikeri River enters the salty Pacific Ocean.

A fast-growing network, the 2001 New Zealand census recorded a populace of 4,878 which was an increase of 16.3 percent over the 1996 discern. The 2006 census tally of five,856 was a in addition populace boom of 20 percent, and the 2013 census showed an growth by way of a in addition 11 percentage to 6,507.