Ahipara: Te Kohanga gumfields, kauri gum ground

Where: New Zealand · Oceania · approx. -35.2, 173.12 (vicinity only)

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

What turns up: small kauri gum chips on eroded ground, gum washed onto Ninety Mile Beach after storms

Access: Gray area.

Land is a patchwork of Maori-owned blocks, private farms and reserve, gum-digging era sites over 100 years old carry archaeological protection, ask locally in Ahipara before picking anything up off the plateau

Satellite view, historic-map overlays, tide/flow context and field notes are in the app. Exact research detail is part of Pro.