Whangaparapara

Whangaparapara is a harbour and coastal community on Great Barrier Island in New Zealand's Hauraki Gulf.

[2] European settlers felled native forests, establishing tramlines to extract the timber to the harbour where it was transported to Auckland for milling.

[1] The Kauri Timber Company sawmill was established in the early 20th century, to process logs from the Coromandel Peninsula and Northland Region.

[1] New Zealand's last whaling station operated on the northern side of the Whangaparapara Harbour from 1957 to 1962.

[1] The 2010s, the Department of Conservation permanently closed the Mount Whangaparapara walking track due to the risk of Kauri dieback.