New Zealand region
Advertise your website on Gisborne
First to see the sun on the mainland. Quiet until vintage.
The Gisborne board
Open. Nobody has listed on Gisborne yet — $1 puts your site at the top of this board and your name on the map.
Highest bid is the name on the map. Outbid stays listed below, not refunded. Rules
About Gisborne
Gisborne is the first city on the New Zealand mainland to see the sun each day, tucked behind the ranges on the East Cape. It is small and self-contained: wine, forestry, horticulture, and a port that handles a great deal of log.
Who a listing on Gisborne reaches
Gisborne is a small market where people know each other's businesses by name. Surf schools, wineries, forestry and roading contractors, and the trades that rebuild after each cyclone are the ones who want to be the name a Tairāwhiti reader sees first.
- Main centres
- Gisborne, Tolaga Bay, Ruatōria, Te Karaka
- Council
- Gisborne District Council, Gisborne
- People
- 51,135 (2023 Census)
On the chart
HikurangiPeak
Hikurangi, 1,752 m. The first mainland peak to see the sunrise; sacred to Ngāti Porou.
Ngāti Porou greeted the first sunrise of the millennium here; nine carved figures have stood near the summit since 2000.
East CapeLandmark
East Cape: the easternmost point of the mainland, under its lighthouse.
The lighthouse stood on East Island until 1922, when erosion forced it to the mainland.
GisborneCity
Gisborne / Tūranganui-a-Kiwa: the first city in the world to see each new day, and where Cook first landed in 1769.
Chardonnay country; the surf at Wainui is a short drive.