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Advertise your website on Hawke's Bay
Art deco, apples, and a long lunch that got out of hand.
The Hawke's Bay board
Open. Nobody has listed on Hawke's Bay 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 Hawke's Bay
Hawke's Bay rebuilt Napier in art deco after the 1931 earthquake and has traded on good weather ever since — apples, pears, and wine on the Gimblett Gravels. Napier and Hastings sit twenty minutes apart and function as one economy.
Who a listing on Hawke's Bay reaches
Hawke's Bay sells food, wine and weather. Wineries, cellar doors, orchards, packhouses, art deco tours and the builders still at work after Cyclone Gabrielle all have a reason to put a site in front of people who live or holiday between Napier and Hastings.
- Main centres
- Napier, Hastings, Havelock North, Waipukurau
- Council
- Hawke's Bay Regional Council, Napier
- People
- 175,074 (2023 Census)
On the chart
Te UreweraNational park
Te Urewera: the largest native forest in the North Island, a legal person since 2014, home of Tūhoe.
Lake Waikaremoana lies inside it. The Act that made it a legal person also ended its time as a national park.
WaikaremoanaLake
Lake Waikaremoana: formed by a landslide about 2,200 years ago; a Great Walk circles it.
“The sea of rippling waters” fills a valley dammed by the slide; its outlet is used for hydro.
Cape KidnappersLandmark
Cape Kidnappers / Te Kauwae-a-Māui: the largest mainland gannet colony in the world.
Named after a 1769 attempt to seize Cook’s cabin boy. Gannets nest here from September.
MāhiaLandmark
Māhia Peninsula: where Rocket Lab launches from.
Launch Complex 1 is at the peninsula’s southern tip; the first orbital launch was in January 2018.
Hikurangi TrenchOn the water
Hikurangi Trench: where the Pacific plate goes under the North Island, over 3,000 m down.
Slow-slip earthquakes here last weeks and are measured by GPS, not felt.
NapierCity
Napier: rebuilt in Art Deco after the 1931 earthquake, which lifted the sea floor into land.
Marine Parade's Norfolk pines line the shore; gannets nest at Cape Kidnappers nearby.