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7 unusual facts about Hauraki Gulf


Castor Bay

Nearby John F. Kennedy Park contains old World War II bunkers that were used to survey the Hauraki Gulf and is accessible from Castor Bay by road (Beach Road) or by walkway (from the extended coastline to the north).

Fly My Sky

Scheduled services were developed to provide several flights a day between Auckland International Airport, Whangarei and Great Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf in 1998.

Milford, New Zealand

The Wairau Creek empties into the Hauraki Gulf at the northern end of Milford Beach, and its lower tidal reaches host the Milford Marina.

Narrow Neck, New Zealand

Until the mid-19th century, Devonport was connected with the rest of the North Shore by a causeway between Ngataringa Bay and the Hauraki Gulf.

Orere Point

It is located on the Hauraki Gulf just outside of the Auckland metropolitan area, about 2 hour's drive from the centre of the city.

Pakuranga

Pakuranga covers a series of low ridges and previously swampy flats, now drained, that lie between the Pakuranga Creek and Tamaki River, two estuarial arms of the Hauraki Gulf.

Tamaki, New Zealand

It is located in the east of the city, 11 kilometres from the city centre, by the banks of the estuarial Tamaki River, which is a southern arm of the Hauraki Gulf.


Brush-tailed rock-wallaby

As part of the acclimatisation movement of the late 1800s, governor Grey introduced this and four other species of wallabies (including the rare parma wallaby) to islands in Hauraki Gulf, near Auckland, New Zealand, where they became well-established.

Coromandel Peninsula

It is part of the Waikato Region and Thames-Coromandel District and extends 85 kilometres north from the western end of the Bay of Plenty, forming a natural barrier to protect the Hauraki Gulf and the Firth of Thames in the west from the Pacific Ocean to the east.

Sea Urchins

Described as a saltwater Swallows and Amazons, it was shot on the Mahurangi Peninsula in the Hauraki Gulf, where the plucky “urchins” stumble on villanious plots from missing treasure to wildlife smuggling while holidaying with their uncle.


see also

Haustrum scobina

It generally prefers inter-tidal zones, such as the Hauraki Gulf of Auckland, New Zealand.

Hauturu

Little Barrier Island or Hauturu which is an island in the Hauraki Gulf in New Zealand