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Ninety Mile Beach
Ninety Mile Beach, North Island, New Zealand.
Ninety Mile Beach
beach, New Zealand
Ninety Mile Beach: quicksandTe Paki quicksand stream, Ninety Mile Beach, North Island, New Zealand.
Ninety Mile Beach, western coast of Aupori Peninsula, the northernmost extension of North Auckland Peninsula, North Island, New Zealand. It stretches for 55 miles (88 km) from Scott Point (northwest) to Ahipara Bay (southwest) and is bordered by scrubland and sand dunes.
In 1643 the Dutch navigator Abel Tasman referred to the beach as “a desert coast.” Now a resort area, it offers fishing (especially for toheroa, a shellfish delicacy) and automobile racing on the hard-packed strand.
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