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Waitara

Waitara is a town in the northern part of the Taranaki region of the North Island of New Zealand.

Waitara
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Waitara is a town in the northern part of the Taranaki region of the North Island of New Zealand. Waitara is located just off State Highway 3, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) northeast of New Plymouth.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Waitara

Airports
Auckland (AKL), 226 km · Wellington (WLG), 264 km
  • Auckland → Waitara
    244 km · quickest by road, 5h 41m · NZ$49–65
  • Wellington → Waitara
    258 km · quickest by road, 6h 5m · NZ$50–65
  • Christchurch → Waitara
    521 km · quickest by road, 16h 30m · NZ$110–150
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No local-transport research exists yet for Waitara

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Waitara. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    819 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    2,296 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    2,499 km
  4. 04
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,265 km
  5. 05
    AitutakiCK

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    3,355 km

If you know how people move in Waitara – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.