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In 1879 Glen Orchard became Auckland’s first stud farm, managed by Major Walmsley, [14] who suggested the name St Heliers Bay, supposedly because it reminded him of the fashionable holiday resort Bay of Saint Helier in Jersey, one of Britain’s Channel Islands. In the mid-1880s the homestead became the centre piece of a planned model seaside ...
Archaeology and History of St Heliers, Auckland. Geology of the headland; Point to point walkway ARC – St Heliers to Churchill park through the crater at Glover Park; Explanation of concretions; Point to Point walkway. The full point to point walk is approximately 7.5km long, starting at the popular St Heliers Bay and finishing at Point England.
Looking west over the Eastern Beaches, Kohimarama in the middle distance. The three beaches are: in the foreground St Heliers, then Kohimarama, lastly Mission Bay. Kohimarama had a population of 4,302 in the 2023 New Zealand census, a decrease of 48 people (−1.1%) since the 2018 census, and an increase of 159 people (3.8%) since the 2013 census.
[5] [2] Other areas occasionally referred to as East Auckland include Saint Heliers, [7] [8] Ellerslie, [9] [10] Mission Bay, [11] [12] Mount Wellington [13] [14] and Remuera. [15] [16] The first references to East Auckland come from the 1970s, referring to Glen Innes. [17] [18] The term East Auckland for areas near Howick entered popular use ...
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 ...
The Auckland Round the Bays Fun Run is one of the largest in the world, [23] and was initiated by the Auckland Joggers Club in the early 1970s. The run is 8.4 km along Tamaki Drive, and follows the contours of the Waitematā Harbour, past Hobson Bay, Okahu Bay, Mission Bay, Kohimarama Beach, and finishing in St Heliers Bay Reserve. [24]
St Helier (/ ˈ h ɛ l i ər /; Jèrriais: Saint Hélyi; French: Saint-Hélier) is the capital of Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel.It is the most populous of the twelve parishes of Jersey, with a population of 35,822, [4] over one-third of the island's total population.
Auckland Gas Company Offices and Workshops (Former) Historic Place Category 2: 20 Beaumont Street and Fisher-Point Drive, Freemans Bay: 542: Auckland Girls' Grammar School Main Block: Historic Place Category 2: 14-16 Howe St, Herne Bay: 544: Auckland Hospital Board Building (Y.M.C.A. Building Former) Historic Place Category 2: 28 Wellesley ...