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Penlink Bridge The Weiti River is an estuarine river to the north of Auckland in the North Island of New Zealand . It rises as the Weiti Stream in the low hills approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) west of Silverdale and emerges into the Hauraki Gulf immediately south of the Whangaparaoa Peninsula .
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 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]
The area is home to six rivers, estuaries and streams: the Waiwera Estuary, [6] to the north, Ōtānerua Stream, [7] Nukumea Stream, [8] [9] Ōrewa River, Weiti River, and Ōkura River to the south. [1] Beaches in the region are predominantly sandy, [10] with gentle slopes. Many of these are wide and provide excellent opportunities for ...
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 ...
The last shipment of kauri gum to leave Stillwater was in 1890. The pack horse tracks from Dairy Flat are still clearly visible on the Weiti Station property. [citation needed] The earliest European name for the area was Five Fingers, in reference to the many sandspits found along the Weiti River. [5]
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 ...