Coromandel Range

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Taken from a NASA Earth observation satellites on 23 October 2002 with the city of Auckland (left) the Hauraki Gulf (center) and the Coromandel Peninsula ( right).

The Coromandel Range is a mountain range of rugged mountains that extends on the North Island of New Zealand over the entire length of the Coromandel Peninsula.

The mountain range is located almost centrally on the Peninsula, about 60 kilometers west of the city of Auckland and runs in a north -south direction over a length of about 85 kilometers. The highest point of the mountain range is the 890 meter high Mt Moehau, at the northern end of the peninsula.

The Coromandel Range is part of a network of different heights and mountain ranges that run like a spine on the North Island. At the southern end of the scale the Karangahake Gorge separates the mountains of the peninsula from the south continue running mountains of the Kaimai Ranges. The north of the peninsula in the Hauraki Gulf Island of Great Barrier Island forms as the northern continuation of this mountain ridge.

The Coromandel Range forms if the weather a weather divide between the east and the west side of the peninsula, by the relatively steep slope of the mountains towards the sea, the mountain peaks, despite their comparatively low altitude often covered in clouds while on the peninsula in beautiful sunshine the coast may circle. The four cross-connections between east and west sides of the peninsula over the mountains overlook an interesting and original landscape. Despite intensive felling of Kauri forests at the beginning of the 19th century, there are still well hidden in the mountains some beautiful Kauri forest areas.

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