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5 unusual facts about Bay of Plenty


Brodie Henderson

Henderson played professionally for Bay of Plenty in New Zealand during the 2005-2006 season and Pertemps Bees in the English National Division 1 (now known as the RFU Championship) in the 2006-2007 season.

James Muir Cameron Fletcher

Their eldest son Jim was killed by an intruder at his Bay of Plenty bach (holiday home) on New Year's Eve 1993.

Mosese Bogisa

Bogisa also represented Fiji in 15 non first-class matches from 1948 to 1954, with his final match for Fiji coming against Bay of Plenty during their 1953/54 tour of New Zealand.

Paroa

Paroa, Bay of Plenty, a settlement in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand

Semi Ravouvou

During the same tour Ravouvou played six non first-class matches for Fiji, with his final match on tour coming against Bay of Plenty.


Atiamuri Power Station

Atiamuri electricity also is distributed to the Bay of Plenty via the twin-circuit Atiamuri to Tarukenga (near Rotorua) line (ATI-TRK-A) originating from the power station.

Auckland Anniversary Day

The modern area of observation includes all of the Northland and Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty and Gisborne Regions, as well as some parts of the Manawatu-Wanganui and Hawke's Bay regions north of the 39th parallel.

Coromandel Peninsula

It is part of the Waikato Region and Thames-Coromandel District and extends 85 kilometres north from the western end of the Bay of Plenty, forming a natural barrier to protect the Hauraki Gulf and the Firth of Thames in the west from the Pacific Ocean to the east.

Horahora Power Station

This allowed supply to be extended to include the Bay of Plenty and Auckland.

James Gow

In the 1908 general election he was a candidate for the Bay of Plenty electorate.

Metrosideros excelsa

In isolated populations genetic drift has resulted in local variation: many of the trees growing around the Rotorua lakes produce pink-shaded flowers, and the yellow-flowered cultivar 'Aurea' descends from a pair discovered in 1940 on Mōtiti Island in the Bay of Plenty.

Murupara Branch

The Murupara Branch (incorporating the Kawerau Branch) was a branch railway line from the East Coast Main Trunk at Hawkens Junction near Edgecombe via Kawerau to Murupara; built to serve a new pulp and paper mill havesting the radiata pine trees of the Kaingaroa Forest on the Kaingaroa Plateau in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.

MV Rena

On Wednesday, 5 October 2011, at 2:20 AM while sailing from Napier to Tauranga, the Rena ran aground on the Astrolabe Reef off the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.

Opotiki College

Opotiki College is a state secondary school located in Opotiki, in the Bay of Plenty, North Island, New Zealand.

Regional effects of global warming

Coastal development and population growth in areas such as Cairns and Southeast Queensland (Australia) and Northland to Bay of Plenty (New Zealand), would place more people and infrastructure at risk.

Taneatua Express

The Taneatua Express was an express passenger train operated by the New Zealand Railways Department that ran between Auckland and Taneatua in the Bay of Plenty, serving centres such as Tauranga and Te Puke.


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Jamie Nutbrown

He then became one of Bay of Plenty's top players alongside New Zealand sevens representatives Solomon King, Nigel Hunt and Zar Lawrence.

Mount Edgecumbe

Putauaki or Mount Edgecumbe, a volcanic cone in the Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand

Northern Mystics

The Mystics gained Silver Ferns stalwarts Maria Tutaia and Joline Henry from the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic, as well as Althea Byfield (Jamaican international) from the Central Pulse and Jenny-May Coffin from retirement.