Waihi
Sign in to saveWaihi is a town in Hauraki District in the North Island of New Zealand, especially notable for its history as a gold mine town.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Waihi
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Waihi's Main Street (Seddon Street) looking South.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Waihi's Main Street (Seddon Street) looking South
- Settlement.mapframe
- yes
- Settlement.mapframe zoom
- 9
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of Waihi within the North Island
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- New Zealand
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Waikato region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Territorial authority
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Hauraki District
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Ward
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Waihi Ward
- Settlement.leader_title
- Territorial Authority
- Settlement.leader_name
- Hauraki District Council
- Settlement.leader_title1
- Regional council
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- locality
- Country
- New Zealand
- Located in
- Hauraki District
- Population
- +5740
- Image
- 00 4937 Māori sculpture in Waihi, New Zealand.jpg
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- P1889
- Waihi Beach
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Article
15 sectionsContents
- Demographics
- Rural surrounds
- History and culture
- Mining township
- Railways
- Counterculture era
- Recent history
- Marae
- Current mining
- Education
- Renumbering project
- Cornish Pumphouse
- Climate
- References
- External links
Waihi is a town in Hauraki District in the North Island of New Zealand, especially notable for its history as a gold mine town.
The town is at the foot of the Coromandel Peninsula, close to the western end of the Bay of Plenty. The nearby resort town of Waihi Beach, ten kilometres to the east, is often regarded as the westernmost point of the Bay of Plenty region. To the west are the hills of the Kaimai Ranges. Road access from this direction is through the winding Karangahake Gorge road. Waihi has a warm and temperate climate but unusually high rainfall for New Zealand's east coast with an average annual rainfall of 2147 mm.