Just five minutes off the main road at Waipoua forest is New Zealand largest Kauri Tree: with an estimated age of around 2000 years old Tane Mahuta (God of the Forest) is 51.5 meters high with a girth of almost 14 meters.
The highlight of Northland's westcoast - this superb forest sanctuary, proclaimed in 1952 after much public pressure - is the largest remnant of the once-extensive kauri forests of the northern New Zealand.
The forest road stretches 18km and passes some huge trees. A kauri can reach 60m in height and have a trunk 5m in diameter.
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1/13/2024, 11:02:10 PM