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Opepe

Vanished settlement · New Zealand

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
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Population
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Coordinates
-38.758, 176.220
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Why it was abandoned

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History

Opepe was a settlement in New Zealand, a few miles southeast of Taupō. It was the scene of an attack on European militia by Māori on 7 June 1869, in which nine members of the militia were killed.

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