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East Coast landforms

  • Landforms

    Landforms
  • Vegetation

    Vegetation
  • Place names

    Place names
  • Districts

    Districts
  • Highways

    Highways

The East Coast consists of the rugged main ranges that border the Bay of Plenty, a large area of broken hill country, and river flats – the largest of which are in Poverty Bay, with smaller ones at Tolaga Bay, Tokomaru Bay, the lower Waiapu River and Te Araroa.

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Monty Soutar, East Coast region – Geology and landscape, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/interactive/33270/east-coast-landforms (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Monty Soutar, published 23 August 2011, updated 1 March 2015.