The Havelock North Village Info Centre is conveniently located at the roundabout in the heart of wine country in Hawke's Bay. Staff are happy to book your accommodation, wine tours, gannet tour and all tourist activities in Havelock North and Hawke's Bay. With so much to do and so much to see Havelock North Visitor Information Centre is the ideal place to begin your holiday.
The charming seaport of Havelock was once a thriving gold-mining town. Today it's a base for exploration of the Kenepuru and Pelorus sounds. Havelock has a thriving small boat harbour, famous for its green shelled mussels, locals call it the green shelled mussel capital of the world. Named after Sir Henry Havelock a famous British general in the Indian Mutiny, Havelock has seen its share of famous people. Both Ernest Rutherford, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908 and Bill Pickering, who headed the USA's un-manned space exploration from 1954-1976, attended Havelock School.

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