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Northland

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Northland

Northernmost district in North Island New Zealand, covering a peninsula about 320 km/200 mi long, extending from Cape Reinga at the northern tip of North Island to Rodney District, just to the north of Auckland city; population (1996) 141,900. The principal city is Whangarei, with a deep water harbour, a large oil refinery, and a boatbuilding industry. The Bay of Islands, including Russell and Tutukaka, is a tourist resort, with unspoilt beaches, and is a base for deep-sea fishing and diving.



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It was the Wild, the savage, frozen- hearted Northland Wild.
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They often speculated over his past, and tried to conjure up (from what they had read and heard) what his northland life had been.
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All of which came to pass; and the boat, in the grip of the current, like a river steamer with smoke rising from the two joints of stove-pipe, grounded on shoals, hung up on split currents, and charged rapids and canyons, as it drove deeper into the Northland winter.
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