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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.
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 ...
[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 ...
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]
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 ...
His father Eliot Davis, nephew of Sir Ernest Davis, Auckland mayor from 1935 to 1945, gifted a memorial fountain at Mission Bay to keep the memory of his son alive. [13] The fountain was designed by architect George Tole and created by Richard Gross, it is constructed of Sicilian marble fluted to catch the light and decorated with three bronze ...
Barfoot & Thompson Stadium is a training and competition venue for many local clubs and organisations including East City Futsal Indoor Soccer Club, Auckland Ultimate, Auckland Basketball, Sparta Volleyball Club, Orakei Tigers Basketball Club, Howick & St Heliers Judo Club, Aikido Auckland Aikikai and many more.