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4 unusual facts about Tamaki


Achilles Point

It is found in the center of the headland between West Tamaki Head and the eastern end of St Heliers Bay beach.

Raymond Firth

Firth was born in Tamaki, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand in 1901, to Wesley and Marie Firth.

Starship Children's Health

Besides the main building, Starship has outpatient clinics for the Auckland region in Tamaki, West Auckland and North Shore City, as well as being associated with approximately 45 Outreach Clinics throughout the country.

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.


Anzen Chitai

Koji Tamaki was credited as the sole composer in virtually all of Anzen Chitai's music, with Gorō Matsui being the lyricist frequently.

Ernst Plischke

From 1943–47 he worked for the Department of Town Planning producing work in areas including: Naenae, Trentham, Tamaki and Mangakino.

Jillian Tamaki

Skim (2008) is a collaboration between illustrator Jillian Tamaki and her cousin, writer Mariko Tamaki.

Māori Women's Welfare League

Ten of thirteen self-identified Destiny branches were constituted in at the same time at the Destiny Church's headquarters in Mt Wellington after Hannah Tamaki's nomination.

Tamaki River

The inlet extends past the suburbs of Glendowie, Glen Innes, Tamaki, Panmure, and Otahuhu to the west, and Bucklands Beach, Halfmoon Bay, Farm Cove, Sunnyhills and Pakuranga to the east.


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