Coromandel Parkmap Incorporating Nothern Kaimai's
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ISBN: 9421005170115
Brand new edition.
Now incorporates northern part of Kaimai-Mamaku Forest Park.
Parkmaps, published by the Department of Conservation, are maps for those visiting and using New Zealand's national parks and other conservation land. These detailed maps show all major natural features, as well as tracks and huts, and have interpretative information on the map back.
Edition 2 2006
Doubled sided (top half on one side, bottom on the other), basically the only parkmap which gets all the penninsula on one map.
The oldest known name for the Coromandel Peninsula is Te Paeroa A Toi, "the long range of Toi". It is one of a series that links the region to the ancient voyagers of Polynesia. Another is Te Whitianga A Kupe, "Kupe's Crossing", preserved today in the township of Whitianga.
The first people to live on the peninsula were the nomads known as Moa Hunters or Archaic Maori. Remnants of their occupation can be seen in middens along beaches and around estuaries.
The first tribal Maori came with the Arawa canoe. They too marked their association with the peninsula in place names: Te Moehau, from the 'windy sleeping place of Tamatekapua"; and Te O A Hei (now known as Hahei), "the exclamation of Hei". It is Hei's descendants, Ngati Hei, who are recognised as the longest established tangata whenua group in the district.
James Cook stopped at Mercury Bay in 1769 to observe the transit of the planet Mercury across the sun. He too is remembered by place names he left (Mayor Island, the Aldermen, Cape Colville). Later he rowed up the Waihou River, which he called the Thames, and found giant kahikatea near Hikutaia.
Cook's reports led to the region's timber boom. It was a Royal Naval vessel collecting kauri spars in 1830, the Coromandel, that gave its name to both the harbour and the peninsula.