Rangihoua Bay

In the early 19th century, when European ships first began visiting the area, the Ngāpuhi chief Te Pahi had a pā at Rangihoua.

Prior to the establishment of the mission Ruatara had been the first to grow wheat in New Zealand, at Rangihoua in 1812.

[2] The missionaries, John King, Thomas Kendall, and William Hall, together with free settler Thomas Hansen, arrived in Rangihoua Bay on board the brig Active on 22 December 1814.

[2][3][4][5] On 24 February 1815 Marsden purchased land at Rangihoua for the first New Zealand mission.

[8][1] On 21 December 2014 the Rangihoua Heritage Park was opened to commemorate the bicentennial of the establishment of the mission.

Rangihoua Bay in 1964 at the time of the 150th anniversary of the first Christian service held there, where the Rev. R E Marsden (great-great-grandson of Samuel Marsden) conducted a commemorative service.
Rangihoua Bay and Oihi missionary settlement
Rangihoua pa viewed from Oihi