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Auckland Zoo
New Zealand's largest zoo with native wildlife including kiwi alongside exotic species from around the globe.
7 km · about 10 min drive
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Te Atatu Peninsula
Auckland, New Zealand · Oceania
About Te Atatu Peninsula
Te Atatu Peninsula works well as a base: 5 minutes from Massey, 8km from Auckland Harbour Bridge.
Te Atatu Peninsula is in Auckland, New Zealand, with about 15,000 people. You drive on the left here. The nearest town is Massey, about 4 km away.
Te Atatū Peninsula (formerly Te Atatu North, also known in Māori as Ōrukuwai) is a waterfront suburb of West Auckland surrounded by the Waitematā Harbour. The area was home to brickworks and farmland until the Northwestern Motorway was constructed in the 1950s, after which Te Atatū developed a low and medium-costRead more
suburb. The area south of the motorway became known as Te Atatū South. The Auckland Harbour Board intended to develop a port on the peninsula for much of the 20th century. After plans for this were abandoned, the land was redeveloped into Footrot Flats Fun Park, an amusement park which operated in the 1980s. During the late 2010s, large-scale housing intensification led to the population of Te Atatū greatly expanding.
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What is there to see near Te Atatu Peninsula?
Within an hour or so of Te Atatu Peninsula: Auckland Zoo (7 km), Auckland Harbour Bridge (8 km), Sky Tower (10 km), Muriwai Gannet Colony (20 km).
Where is Te Atatu Peninsula?
Te Atatu Peninsula is in Auckland, New Zealand, about 4 km from Massey.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 15,200
- Continent
- Oceania
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Auckland
- Timezone
- Pacific/Auckland
- Coordinates
- -36.8410, 174.6522
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Many rural bridges are single-lane. Give way as signed.
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Worth the detour from Te Atatu Peninsula
6 notable places within an hour's drive.
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Auckland Harbour Bridge
The eight-lane icon spanning Waitematā Harbour since 1959, carrying SH1 into downtown Auckland with skyline and gulf views: thrill-seekers can climb it or bungy jump off it.
8 km · about 15 min drive
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Sky Tower
328-metre observation and telecommunications tower dominating the Auckland skyline, New Zealand's tallest man-made structure.
10 km · about 20 min drive
scenic viewpoint
Muriwai Gannet Colony
Around 1,200 pairs of Australasian gannets nest on a cliff shelf and sea stack west of Auckland, with viewing platforms placed metres from the birds. Occupied roughly August to March.
20 km · about 25 min drive
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Piha Beach
Auckland's wild west coast surf beach, dominated by the iconic Lion Rock and powerful black-sand breakers.
21 km · about 25 min drive
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Karekare Beach
A vast black-sand beach beneath the Waitakere Ranges, where The Piano was filmed, with a waterfall in the bush behind the car park. Wilder and emptier than neighbouring Piha.
23 km · about 25 min drive
Driving roads near Te Atatu Peninsula
- Right hereAuckland Harbour BridgeThe eight-lane icon spanning Waitematā Harbour since 1959, carrying SH1 into downtown Auckland with skyline and gulf views: thrill-seekers can climb it or bungy jump off it.
- 20 kmMuriwai Gannet ColonyAround 1,200 pairs of Australasian gannets nest on a cliff shelf and sea stack west of Auckland, with viewing platforms placed metres from the birds. Occupied roughly August to March.
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