Some 30km southwest from Whakatane, roughly halfway between Rotorua and the Bay of Plenty, is Kawerau (pop. 8,000), a planned new town established in 1953 at the foot of Mount Edgecumbe. It lies near the large Kaingaroa State Forest with its extensive plantings of pines.

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