Kerikeri Airport on the western perimeter of the town is a busy commuter link with Auckland, and has a very active Bay Of Islands Aero Club.

In 1831, thirteen chiefly rangatira from the far north of the country met at Kerikeri to compose a letter to King William IV asking for help to guard their lands.

In 1831, thirteen rangatira from the far north of the country met at Kerikeri to compose a letter to King William IV, seeking protection from the French " the tribe of Marion ".

The Kerikeri Mission Station, with the Stone Store at left, St James at rear, and Mission House on the right

A rapidly expanding centre of sub-tropical and allied horticulture, Kerikeri is in the Far North District of the North Island and lies at the western extremity of the Kerikeri Inlet, a northwestern arm of the Bay of Islands, where fresh water of the Kerikeri River enters the salty Pacific Ocean.

Kerikeri ( airport ) is located at.

In 1814 Samuel Marsden acquired land at Kerikeri from Hongi Hika for the use of the Church Missionary Society for a payment of forty-eight axes.

The plough was first used in New Zealand at Kerikeri, by Rev.

In the early 1980s, an anonymous backpacker wrote those words in the Visitors ' Book at the Kerikeri Youth Hostel.

Curiously enough, when work started on the building, Māori were already moving out of the district, and when it was finally completed there were very few Māori remaining at Kerikeri.

It was considered a folly at the time, but one that blesses Kerikeri today.

Although the water at the Stone Store basin is a part of the Bay of Islands where overseas yachties tie up regularly, especially in the hurricane season, Kerikeri township does not have a beach.

Kororipo Pā stands at the head of the Kerikeri Inlet which was known as Te Waha o te Riri ( the inlet of war ) not long after the missionaries arrived.

The club meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month at The Kerikeri RSA in Cobham Road at 10. 30 am.

As well as the at nearby Matauri Bay, Te Ngaere etc., and various places to swim in the Kerikeri River such as the Fairy Pools, Kerikeri has a modern swimming pool with diving facilities.

Although sited at the Kerikeri High School it is a community pool.

Māori settled and multiplied throughout the bay and on several of its many islands to establish various tribes such as the Ngāti-Miru at Kerikeri.

Born at Pakaraka south of Kerikeri in the Bay of Islands, Heke was a highly influential chief of the Ngāpuhi tribe.

As a youth, he attended the mission school at Kerikeri and came under the influence of the missionary, Henry Williams.

However the missionary settlement at Kerikeri was both earlier and larger and the town is now larger than that of Bluff.

Kerikeri and the Bay of Islands is popular with backpackers.

Kerikeri, Bay of Islands.

The Kerikeri River rises in the Puketi Forest inland from Kerikeri and flows into the western extremity of the Bay Of Islands in northern New Zealand.

The freshwater river falls over a ford into the Pacific Ocean, in the upper extremity of Kerikeri Inlet, a northwestern arm of the Bay.

His family owns three lodges: Kauri Cliffs Lodge near Kerikeri in Northland ; Matakauri Lodge Queenstown ; and The Farm at Cape Kidnappers, Hawkes Bay, as well as several wineries.

There is a cluster of towns on the east coast around the Bay of Islands, ( Kerikeri, Paihia, Russell, Opua, Kawakawa and Moerewa ), the town of Kaikohe centrally situated to the west of them, and a cluster of small settlements on the west coast surrounding the Hokianga Harbour ( Omapere, Opononi, Rawene, Panguru, Kohukohu, and Horeke ).

File: Lepidozamia peroffskyana at Kerikeri, Bay of Islands, New Zealand. jpg | Lepidozamia peroffskyana

Eagle Airways is a regional airline based in Hamilton, New Zealand with ten crew bases from Kerikeri in the Bay of Islands to Blenheim in the Marlborough region.

Kerikeri, the largest town in the Northland Region of New Zealand, is a popular tourist destination about three hours drive north of Auckland, and 80 km north of Whangarei.

The Māori word Kerikeri was spelled and pronounced as Keddi Keddi or even Kiddee Kiddee, but the town's name is today generally pronounced Kerry Kerry but with a rolled r by Māori.

The origin of the name Kerikeri is not exactly known, and there have been many conflicting definitions given over the years.

It is likely Kerikeri derives its name from the river and in fact, after visiting the area in 1815, John Nicholson wrote " the river that discharged itself into the cove was called by the natives Tecaddiecaddie ....".

The definition of the word Kerikeri most widely known by pākehā ( New Zealanders of European descent ) is ' dig dig ', or ' to keep digging '.

The local Kerikeri slogan is " It's So Nice They Named It Twice ".

Kerikeri is a former winner of the " New Zealand's Top Small Town " title bestowed annually by North and South magazine, and this has since been the main focus of most tourism marketing of the town.

Kerikeri High School is the largest school in Northland.

The Māori name for Rainbow Falls on the Kerikeri River is Waianiwaniwa which means Waters of the Rainbow.

Kerikeri is fast becoming the boutique shopping destination of the North.

Being slightly less than 20 kilometres long it is hardly a significant waterway, but because it terminates at one of the most important historic sites in the country, the Stone Store Basin, it is known to countless thousands of tourists who visit Kerikeri each year.

Also not far away are the Whangaroa and Hokianga harbours, the Waiomio limestone caves, many beautiful beaches and secluded bays, and historic Kerikeri which is Northland's largest town.

Official British resident James Busby is credited with producing wine at Kerikeri in 1833, and Charles Darwin noted the winery in his diary when he visited Kerikei in 1835.