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The vast Parengarenga Harbour spills into the sea through a narrow channel of dark water running over a shallow bar.
Powerful tides rip across it, drawing the waves into peaks and making treacherous conditions for vessels, some of which lie wrecked and rusting in the shallows—an immortal warning to mariners.
The harbour extends inland some ten kilometres with five sprawling arms, each with shallow fingers lined with mangroves.
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