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This is a list of ferries that operate in Auckland, New Zealand, as part of the city's public transport network. Ferries are primarily operated by Fullers360 , SeaLink , Belaire , and Explore . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Auckland Transport also owns several ferries, [ 3 ] but these vessels are controlled by Fullers360 until 2028.
Fullers Group Limited, trading as Fullers360, is a ferry and tourism company in Auckland, New Zealand. [1] It operates in the Hauraki Gulf and Waitematā Harbour.Fullers Group is the latest in a long line of almost continuous harbour and gulf ferry operations based in Auckland since the 1870s.
SeaLink operates the only year-round car and freight ferry service to Great Barrier Island, using the vessel Island Navigator. Services are from Hamer Street, Wynyard Quarter, Auckland to Tryphena Great Barrier Island. Charter services are also available that can arrive into Tryphena, Port Fitzroy and/or Whangaparapara.
The Auckland waterfront (rarely the Auckland harbourfront) is a city-side stretch of the southern Waitematā Harbour coastline in Auckland, New Zealand. Previously mostly dominated by Ports of Auckland uses, from the 2000s on it is becoming increasingly open to recreational public use, with a number of former wharves being converted to office ...
Riverhead is a small, historically predominantly working-class town located at the head of the Waitematā Harbour in the north-west of Auckland, New Zealand. It is located on the northwestern shores of the Upper Waitematā Harbour , north-east of the towns of Kumeū and Huapai .
By the early 20th century, the Auckland Harbour Board recognised the need for a dedicated ferry building in Auckland. [1] Original plans were for a five-storey structure, but after public outrage at the height, a design of four storeys and a clock tower was proposed. [1] The plan was similar to that of the San Francisco Ferry Building. [1]
The oldest Māori name of the harbour was Te Whanga-nui o Toi (The Big Bay of Toi), named after Toi, an early Māori explorer. [ 2 ] The name Waitematā means "Te Mata Waters", [ 2 ] which according to some traditions refers to a mauri stone (a stone of Māori religious significance) called Te Mata, which was placed on Boat Rock (in the harbour ...
Shakespear Regional Park (Māori: Te Papa Rēhia ā-Rohe o Shakespear) [2] is a nature park in the Auckland Region of New Zealand.It is located at the tip of the Whangaparaoa Peninsula, and is named after the Shakespear family who first came on to the land when Sir Robert Hamilton purchased 1392 acres on behalf of his grandson, Robert Shakespear, from Ranulph Dacre in 1883.