Cape Reinga

 

You can't go much further north in New Zealand than Cape Reinga.  It is more than 100k's north of the nearest small town Kaitaia.  It is the point at which the Pacific Ocean and the Tasman Sea meet.

 

In Maori culture this Cape is where spirits depart for the underworld.  They leap off the cliff, climb down the roots of a pohutukawa tree and on down to the underworld – the ancestral home of Hawaiki.

 

There is now a sealed road all the way to the Cape.