Airfields and Stations in New Zealand Used By the RNZAF, Part 9

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Claris [Gt Barrier Is]
36^14’29”S x 175^28’19” E

East of Port Fitzroy on Great Barrier Island.

May have been named after “Bill Claris”, a Public Works Engineer who
was killed in a Miles Magister aircraft crash on the site in March 1939

Opened in late 1939.

A detachment of three Vickers Vincents were based there to assist in the
defence of the Auckland region.

The concrete tie-down points are still there, but there is now a sealed runway.

Capable of receiving and dispatching Lockheed Hudsons

Units known to have been permanently stationed there

No 1 GR Squadron Detachment 1939 to?

Kaipara

West of Warkworth, North of Auckland

Meaning:
When Kahu - Mata - Amomoe and his Nephew Ihenga visited
the area they were well fed and among the food was Para.
As they had not seen or tried it before they named the area Kaipara

OR -

Athletics

A firing range used for practice firing of weapons and bombs.

Still in use as a range

No known units stationed here

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