In 2008, you couldn't google search 'Whakatane' in the town of 'Whakatane'

Publish date: Thursday, 24 Mar 2022, 10:09AM

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Outside of New Zealand this may be a little hard to explain, but EVERYBODY knows about this in the land of the long white cloud. As the world got smaller and smaller, language issues were bound to cause a few mishaps and in 2008 Whakatane struggled to get it's own name on the google map.