Photographic prints and image files of Coromandel Peninsula New Zealand

Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand. This gallery includes images from Coromandel Town, Mercury Bay, Whitianga, 309 Road, Tairua.​Te Kouma Harbour, Makariri Bay, Coromandel.
Whanganui Island pictured here is located at the entrance to Coromandel Harbour, separated from the mainland by a narrow channel. European shipbuilders and traders employed by William Webster settled it in 1836. Hannafords Jetty, in deep water at Te Kouma, is now used by tourist ferries. Source: Te Ara (edited).

Driving Creek, Railway. Barry Brickel Pottery, Coromandel.
Barry Brickell's interest in ceramics first developed from a meeting with Len Castle. In 1961 he purchased his first property near the town of Coromandel. In 1974, he bought an adjacent 60-acre site, where his Driving Creek Railway and Potteries remain today. In the same year he was awarded a QEII Arts Council Grant to build New Zealand's first wood-fired stoneware pottery kiln, which he made using bricks from a demolished hotel. He was known for his skill at building kilns. Most of the kilns at Driving Creek were built using bricks made with local clay. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to pottery and ceramics in the 1988 New Year Honours. He passed away in January of 2016.  Source; Web (edited)​

Coromandel Town.
​Coromandel is named after HMS Coromandel, which sought kauri spars in the area in June 1820. Miners flocked to Coromandel in 1852 and 1862 but, failing to find alluvial gold, soon left. Investment by mining companies from 1868 meant quartz reefs could be mined, so returns improved and the town stabilised. The population was 1,174 in 1874. Many fine colonial buildings, like the government buildings (1873), have survived. The Coromandel Goldfield Centre and Stamper Battery and the Coromandel School of Mines and Historical Museum are both located in heritage buildings. Gold mining and logging both declined after 1900. Land was farmed and a dairy factory opened in 1911. The shallow harbour meant the old wharf could only be used at high tide and was expensive to maintain. The decline in coastal shipping and poor roading left farmers isolated. Source: Te Ara (edited).

Coromandel Harbour, Wharf, Coromandel Marina.

Abandoned Sawmill, 309 Road, Coromandel.

Waiau Waterfall.

Mercury Bay, Great Mercury Island. Whitianga, Coromandel.

Tairua, Coromandel.

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