Whangarei

Whangarei is the northernmost town in New Zealand and the nearby capital of Northland Region. It is a part of the Whangarei District, a neighborhood body created in 1989 from the former Whangarei City, Whangarei County and Hikurangi Town councils, to administer each the metropolis proper and its hinterland. The metropolis population turned into predicted to be 58,800 in June 2018, an growth from 47,000 in 2001. The Maori iwi Ngapuhi occupied Whangarei from the early nineteenth century, and the Te Parawhau hapū lived at the head of the harbour. Captain James Cook and the crew of the Endeavour were the primary Europeans to sight the Whangarei Harbour entrance.

On 15 November 1769 inside the harbour they stuck about one hundred fish there which they classified as "bream" prompting Cook to call the area Bream Bay. In the 1820s the place was again and again attacked with the aid of Waikato and Ngati Paoa raiders all through the Musket Wars. The first European settler became William Carruth, a Scotsman and dealer who arrived in 1839 and became joined six years later through Gilbert Mair and his circle of relatives. Relations among the settlers and nearby Maori had been typically pleasant, but in February 1842, all settler farms have been plundered in revenge for transgressions of tapu.