Parengarenga Harbour

The Parengarenga Harbour is a natural harbor on the eastern side of the north of Aupouri Peninsula on the North Island of New Zealand. Administratively it belongs to the Northern Ward of the Far North District of Northland Region. The port consists of more branched arms which extend west to the middle of the peninsula and extending therefrom State Highway 1. There the bay located just west of the places Waitiki Landing, on the banks of Snipe Bay Karatia. North of the mouth of the Bay known as Snipe northeastern arm of which is the settlement of Te Hapua, south on a headland between Snipe and Ngutukorari Bay settlement Paua.

The entrance to the harbor is only about 300 meters wide, the total extension of the arms in the interior is about 16 km in the north-south direction and 12 km in east-west direction. In the southern arm of having the small island of Iceland is Kaipohue.

The bright white sand of Kokota Sandspit, who was extending south of the harbor entrance a source of high-quality silica sand for glass manufacture. A reduction was until 1997. During were also found elsewhere in Northland smaller or less pure silica sand deposits are the deposits of the Parengarenga Harbour is by far the largest in the region.