It is part of a series of ranges, with the Coromandel Range to the north and the Mamaku Ranges to the south.

The twin towns of Waihi and Waihi Beach, to the southeast of the peninsula, are often considered to be in the Coromandel although they do not strictly lie on the peninsula itself, as they lie just to the north of the Karangahake Gorge, the pass which marks the southern end of the Coromandel Range.

At the base of the peninsula, the towns of Paeroa and Waihi are connected by means of a road through the Karangahake Gorge which separates the Coromandel Range from the Kaimai Range.

Located to the west of Lake Rotorua and north of Lake Taupo, they lie to the immediate south of the Kaimai Range and can be thought of as an extension of it, in much the same way that the Kaimai Range can be considered an extension of the Coromandel Range.

It lies 40 kilometres north of Waihi and 10 kilometres southwest of Tairua, close to the junction of State Highways 25 and 25A, the latter of which is a winding road cutting across the steep Coromandel Range of hills.

Just beyond the town is the beginning of the Te Moehau Range, which forms the bulk of the northern end of the Coromandel Peninsula, and contains valuable ecological areas, including a population of the threatened North Island Brown Kiwi.

The scene was acquired by NASA's Terra satellite, on October 23, 2002. The Coromandel Range is a ridge of rugged hills running the length of the Coromandel Peninsula in the North Island of New Zealand.

To the south of the Coromandel Range, separated by the winding Karangahake Gorge, the spine continues with the Kaimai Range.

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It runs through the steep-sided Karangahake Gorge, forming a break between the Coromandel Range and the Kaimai Ranges.

Has its Source in the Coromandel Range near Waihi.

It flows north and then northeast for a total of 35 kilometres from its source in the Coromandel Range to the west of Whangamata, passing through the town of Hikuai before reaching the Pacific Ocean at Tairua on the peninsula's east coast.

The large island of Great Barrier, at the entrance to the Hauraki Gulf due north of the Coromandel Peninsula, can be thought of as a northern continuation of this spine.

Von Luckner and a number of other prisoners seized Pearl and made for the Coromandel Peninsula.

Coromandel is noted for its artists, crafts, alternative lifestylers, mussel farming, and recreational fishing.

Attracted to the wealth of Srivijaya, in 1025 Rajendra Chola, the Chola king from Coromandel in South India, launched naval raids on ports of Srivijaya and conquered Kadaram ( modern Kedah ) from Srivijaya and occupied it for some time.

Mr Hackwell was reported as stating that " If the Government's to go down this line they could be buying a fight with the people of the Coromandel, with the people of New Zealand generally, who have put these areas aside and want them protected for their conservation values ".

He finally managed to gain passage on a frigate that was bound for India's Coromandel Coast, and he sailed in March 1761 with the intention of observing the transit from the island of Pondicherry.

Parts of the Coromandel Peninsula, Great Barrier Island, and parts of Paparoa National Park were proposed for removal from Schedule Four of the Crown Minerals Act 1991, which otherwise prevents mining.

More recently Paeroa has been the base for many adventurers in and around the Coromandel / Waikato area.

Paeroa is known as the Events Capital of the Coromandel, as well as having a national reputation for horseracing.

Younger Singaporeans tend to combine traditional wisdom with religious beliefs introduced when the British colonized Singapore ; for example, South Bridge Street, which was a major road through the old Chinatown, is home to the Sri Mariamman Temple ( a south Indian Hindu temple that was declared a national historical site in the 1980s ), as well as the Masjid Jamae Mosque that served Chulia Muslims from India's Coromandel Coast.

The Coromandel Peninsula was named for HMS Coromandel, a ship of the British Royal Navy, which stopped at Coromandel Harbour in 1820 to purchase kauri spars and was itself named for India's Coromandel Coast.

There are many historical mines in the Coromandel area, especially for gold mining.

In September 1852, Charles Ring, a timber merchant, claimed the prize for a find in Coromandel.

He was elected to Parliament in the 1996 elections as MP for the new seat of Coromandel.

The bridge was infamous for the queues of vehicles travelling to and from the Coromandel Peninsula until a new two lane bridge was opened in December 2011.

The town also acts as a service town for motorists travelling from Auckland to the Coromandel Peninsula and Bay of Plenty via State Highway 2.

Today Whitianga serves as a small regional centre for the eastern side of the Coromandel Peninsula / Mercury Bay area and is a focal point for local fishing, farming and tourism industry, such as to the nearby Te Whanganui-A-Hei ( Cathedral Cove ) marine reserve and associated famous beach / cave.

The town was named after the peninsula, which was named after HMS Coromandel, which sailed into the harbour in 1820.

Only five towns on the peninsula have populations of over 1000 ( Coromandel, Whitianga, Thames, Tairua, and Whangamata ), and of these only Thames has a population of over 5000.

Of the main population centres, only Coromandel, Colville, Matarangi and Whitianga are in the north of the peninsula, and much of the interior is virtually uninhabited.

Not all of the roads within the peninsula are sealed ( i. e. are gravel roads ) notably the 309 Road which connects Coromandel Town and Whitianga.

It lies 26 kilometres north of Coromandel and is the northernmost town of any note on the peninsula.

Dick Goudie later ran a taxi service from the town, being the first to drive a motor vehicle across the new bridge at Papa Aroha which opened up the northern peninsula from Coromandel.

There is a natural spring on the island which is the endpoint of an aquifer originating in the Coromandel peninsula.

Following the break-up of his marriage caused by his wife's affair with another man named Bullen ( Mune ), " Smith " ( Neill ) arranges to live on the Coromandel peninsula on an island owned by a Maori tribe.

It is located on the east coast of the Indian peninsula known as the Coromandel Coast in the Bay of Bengal and is situated 2. 6 km north of the Ennore creek.

Another was, that like the Warawara to the North, rainfall was more consistent and abundant so that Maori and European fires had not engulfed it ( as happened to the Kaihu, Puhipuhi and large parts of the Coromandel forest in the 1870s and 1880s ).

The 1970s saw thousands of hippies relocate from large cities around New Zealand to the Coromandel in search of an environmentally friendly lifestyle associated with the counterculture back-to-the-land movement.

He served in the 1st New Zealand Parliament, representing the, a large electorate encompassing Waikato, the Coromandel, the Bay of Plenty, and East Cape.

Mercury Bay is a large V-shaped bay on the eastern coast of the Coromandel Peninsula on the North Island of New Zealand.