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New Zealand, Northland
Ahipara
Te Kohanga gumfields, kauri gum ground
Amber shore Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
FossilsAlso reported: small kauri gum chips on eroded ground, gum washed onto Ninety Mile Beach after storms.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
Rockhounding locality: the plateau above Ahipara was one of Northland's great kauri gumfields, thousands of diggers, many Dalmatian, worked it for fossil resin into the 1930s
Gum digging here is a documented industry with holes, camps and washes still visible, small weathered gum pieces still turn up on disturbed ground and nearby beaches
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Exposed plateau with no shade or waterSoft sand tracks, old gum holes hidden in scrub
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.