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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 ...
Kohimarama is situated between Mission Bay and St Heliers and has an accessible beach with a boardwalk and green recreational spaces located amongst residential areas. Local government of Kohimarama is the responsibility of the Ōrākei Local Board , which also includes the suburbs of Ōrākei , Mission Bay, St Heliers, Glendowie , St Johns ...
Glover Park is an ancient volcanic crater which erupted more than 45,000 years ago. [2]: 233 The volcanic tuff ring crater is also known in Māori language as Whakahumu or geologically as the 'St Heliers explosion crater'. It is found in the center of the headland between West Tamaki Head and the eastern end of St Heliers Bay beach. It was ...
The Auckland Round the Bays Fun Run is one of the largest in the world, [21] 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. [ 22 ]
Local government of Remuera is the responsibility of the Ōrākei Local Board, which also includes the suburbs of Ōrākei, Mission Bay, Kohimarama, St Heliers, Glendowie, St Johns, Meadowbank, and Ellerslie. Remuera is also a part of the Ōrākei ward. Prior to it falling under Epsom, Remuera itself was an electorate from 1938 to 1996.
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 ...
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 Tamaki 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 ...
Auckland Park is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It lies on a gentle slope, and is in close proximity to the suburbs of Melville , Brixton , Westdene and Richmond . Auckland Park is one of the few suburbs close to the Johannesburg city centre that has remained largely unaffected by the recent migration of Johannesburg residents to the ...