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Plans to bridge the Weiti River near Stillwater were first envisaged as early as the 1970s as a way to solve numerous transport issues connecting the Whangaparāoa Peninsula to Auckland City. [14] Following early property purchases in the 1990s, [15] in 2001, the then-proposed toll-road was first designated in the district plan. [16]
The upper stretches of the river are heavily grown with mangroves but with care, small craft can navigate it as far as Silverdale at high tide. Stillwater is the only other settlement along the river's banks. Wentworth College, based in nearby Gulf Harbour, uses the Weiti River for its rowing training. [1]
Stillwater is a village in the northern end of Auckland in the North Island of New Zealand. [3] Situated on the Weiti River immediately south of the Whangaparaoa Peninsula in the Rodney District, it is part of the area known as the Hibiscus Coast. There is also a Stillwater, West Coast in the South Island.
The under construction Penlink road (including a bridge over the Weiti River from Stanmore Bay to Stillwater) will provide a quicker route between the peninsula and central Auckland. [11] [12] The peninsula stretches east for 11 kilometres into the Hauraki Gulf, to the north of East Coast Bays. [8]
Weiti Village, also called Weiti Bay, is a rural settlement to the north of Auckland City, New Zealand.It is under the local governance of the Auckland Council.. Weiti Village is on the north shore of the Ōkura River, [3] and is separated from the rest of Auckland by the Okura Bush Scenic Reserve.
Karepiro Bay is a bay of the Hauraki Gulf / Tīkapa Moana, found at the confluence of the Weiti River and Ōkura River, south of Whangaparāoa Peninsula and north of Long Bay. [1] Dacre Point is a headland found at Karepiro Bay, which is the north headland of the Ōkura River, [ 2 ] and the eastern headland of the Weiti River on the ...
Brazilian authorities are investigating after a bridge collapsed Sunday, killing at least four people and sending trucks loaded with sulfuric acid and pesticides plunging into a river, raising ...
Portages formed important links between the east and west coasts of the Auckland region. Some of the most frequently used portages were those on either side of the Auckland isthmus: the Te Tō Waka portage at Ōtāhuhu (the shortest portage between the east and west coasts), alongside the Karetu and Waokauri / Pūkaki portages, connected the estuarial Tāmaki River to the Manukau Harbour in ...