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WELCOME , this web site has been designed to introduce
RUSSELL Most visitors arrive either by car ferry from OPUA or by passenger ferry from PAIHIA. RUSSELL was originally known as KORORAREKA in the early nineteenth century. It offered fresh food, water and the safest anchorage in the bay, to sailing ships. Russell's wide choice of first class accommodation, restaurants, cafes and local craft makes the town a perfect base from which to explore the Bay of Islands. The Department of Conservation Maritime Park Visitor Centre, in Russell, is a good place to obtain information on the area's top attractions. Among these attractions are the rammed earth Catholic Mission building, housing the 1842 working bookbinding, printing and tannery called POMPALLIER HOUSE and CHRIST'S CHURCH (1836), which is the country's oldest surviving church, complete with bullet holes. |
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