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The metropolitan urban limits of Auckland in 2009. This is a list of suburbs in the Auckland metropolitan area, New Zealand, surrounding the Auckland City Centre.They are broadly grouped into their local board areas, and only include suburbs within the metropolitan urban limits of the Auckland urban area.
From 1876 until 1954, the area was administered by the Waitemata County, a large rural county north and west of the city of Auckland. [71] In 1954, most of the area split from the county, forming the East Coast Bays Borough, [71] and Castor Bay became a part of the Borough of Takapuna [72] (Takapuna City from 1961). [50]
Weymouth, also known as Weymouth by the sea, is a southern suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. [3] It is located adjacent to Clendon Park and Manurewa, some 25 kilometres (16 mi) southeast of Auckland city centre, and is sited on a peninsula between the southeastern shore of the Manukau Harbour and that Harbour's Pahurehure Inlet.
The traditional Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki name for Mellons Bay was Okokino, referring to the bad gusts of winds that were hazards for waka travelling along the coast. [6] The major European settlement in the area began in 1847, with the establishment of the Howick fencible settlement, a settlement of retired British Army soldiers intended to defend Auckland from potential attacks. [7]
Blockhouse Bay is a residential suburb in the south west of Auckland, in New Zealand's North Island.It is sited on the northern coast of the Manukau Harbour, and is also close to the administrative boundary that existed between Auckland City and Waitakere City, two of the former four cities of what was the Auckland conurbation before amalgamation into Auckland Council.
Stonefields is a suburb in Auckland, New Zealand, located 8 kilometres southeast of the city centre. [4] Stonefields is surrounded by the suburbs of Mount Wellington , Saint Johns and Glen Innes . History
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Glen Innes is a suburb in East Auckland, New Zealand, located nine kilometres to the east of the city centre, close to the waters of the Tāmaki River estuary. Glen Innes was named after a large farm owned by William Innes Taylor in the area. There were four Taylor brothers in Auckland, the sons of a British man who had had a military career in ...