Pauanui
Sign in to saveThe town of Pauanui (, meaning "big pāua") is on the east coast of the Coromandel Peninsula in the North Island of New Zealand. It lies at the mouth of the Tairua River on its south bank, directly opposite the larger town of Tairua.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Pauanui
- Settlement.image_skyline
- New.zealand pauanui.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- View of Pauanui from the top of Mount Paku
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- New Zealand
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- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Waikato
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- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Thames-Coromandel District
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- Ward
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- South Eastern ward
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- Community Board
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- Tairua-Pāuanui Community
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- Council
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- Thames-Coromandel District Council
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- Regional council
- Settlement.leader_name1
- Waikato Regional Council
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- Mayor of Thames-Coromandel
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- locality
- Country
- New Zealand
- Located in
- Thames-Coromandel District
- Population
- 1130
- Image
- New.zealand pauanui.jpg
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- Pauanui
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Encyclopedic overview
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The town of Pauanui (, meaning "big pāua") is on the east coast of the Coromandel Peninsula in the North Island of New Zealand. It lies at the mouth of the Tairua River on its south bank, directly opposite the larger town of Tairua.
The two settlements are 30 kilometres east of Thames. Several islands lie off the mouth of the river, notably Slipper Island to the southeast and the Aldermen Islands 20 kilometres to the East.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pauanui” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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