New Zealand region
Advertise your website on Tasman
Golden Bay light. People who left the city on purpose.
The Tasman board
Open. Nobody has listed on Tasman 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 Tasman
Tasman wraps around the top of the South Island from Golden Bay down through Motueka to Richmond, and it has the light people move here for. Apples, hops, aquaculture and art, plus Abel Tasman National Park doing most of the heavy lifting on the tourism side.
Who a listing on Tasman reaches
Tasman reads like a lifestyle catalogue: kayak hire, water taxis into the Abel Tasman, orchards, breweries on local hops, artists, and the builders who put up the houses people move here for. A listing here meets visitors before they arrive and locals who shop small.
- Main centres
- Richmond, Motueka, Tākaka, Māpua
- Council
- Tasman District Council, Richmond
- People
- 57,807 (2023 Census)
On the chart
Abel TasmanNational park
Abel Tasman National Park: the smallest national park, golden beaches and the Coast Track.
Named for the Dutch navigator who anchored in Golden Bay in 1642 and left after a fatal clash. The Coast Track is 60 km.
KahurangiNational park
Kahurangi National Park: the second largest, with the Heaphy Track and the Ōpārara arches.
The Heaphy Track crosses it in four or five days from Golden Bay to the West Coast; some rock here is 500 million years old.
Nelson LakesNational park
Nelson Lakes National Park: where the Southern Alps begin, around lakes Rotoiti and Rotoroa.
The Blue Lake here holds the clearest fresh water ever measured, with visibility near 80 m.
RotoroaLake
Lake Rotoroa: the larger of the two Nelson Lakes, ringed by beech forest.
Fed by the Sabine and D’Urville rivers. The lake is 16 km long.
RotoitiLake
Lake Rotoiti: the smaller Nelson Lake, at St Arnaud, where the Travers Range starts.
The Travers–Sabine circuit begins on its shore at Kerr Bay.
Farewell SpitLandmark
Farewell Spit / Onetahua: a 26 km sand spit and a wetland for migratory birds.
A closed reserve at its tip. Whales strand on its shallow, sloping sands.