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Scenic Drive, Auckland
Scenic Drive is a road that runs through the bush-clad Waitākere Ranges from Titirangi to Swanson on the western outskirts of Auckland, New Zealand. It is part of Auckland urban route 24. As the name indicates, it is famous for the sweeping views over the western parts of the Auckland Region. The road passes through the village of Waiatarua, but most of it is through native bush (forest), in Centennial Memorial Park or the neighbouring water catchment area. It connects with West Coast Road, Shaw Road, Konini Road and Piha Road to the surf beaches at Karekare and Piha. It is paralleled by the disused Exhibition Drive, now used by pedestrians & cyclists. The Arataki Visitor Centre provides displays of the local flora, fauna and geology and well-maintained walking tracks. Along the parts of the road that pass through private land are a native-plant seller, several potters and a disused winery. Large parts of the Waitākere Ranges are now closed to the public for hiking and wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scenic Drive From The Arataki Visitor Centre
Scenic may refer to: * Scenic design * Scenic painting * Scenic overlook * Scenic railroad (other) * Scenic route * Scenic, South Dakota, United States * Scenic (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse Aviation *Airwave Scenic, an Austrian paraglider design Companies and organizations * Scenic Airlines * Scenic America, nonprofit advocacy organization * United Scenic Artists, United States labor union * Woodland Scenics, manufacturer of model railroad scenic materials Music * The Scenics, band * ''Scenic'' (album), 2004 album by band Denver Harbor Vehicles * Scenic Daylight, defunct express train in New Zealand * Renault Scénic, a compact MPV automobile produced by French automaker Renault * Tranz Scenic, passenger train in New Zealand See also * * * * * * Scenic Drive (other) * List of scenic trails * Scene (other) Scene (from Greek σκηνή ''skēnḗ'') may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Music *Scene (subculture), a youth subc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swanson, New Zealand
Swanson is an outlying suburb of West Auckland, New Zealand and is located west of Henderson, surrounded by the Waitākere Ranges. Developing as a service centre for the kauri logging and gumdigging trades in the 1880s along the trainline, the town developed as a rural centre and an early tourist destination for Aucklanders, who visited the Redwood Park on the banks of the Swanson Stream. In the 1940s, the park became a training centre for soldiers in World War II, and in 1970 hosted Redwood 70, the first modern music festival in New Zealand. Geography The Swanson area is primarily a valley north-east of the Waitākere Ranges, and a major catchment area for the Swanson Stream. Prior to human settlement, the Swanson area formed a part of the warm lowlands ecosystem common in inland West Auckland, dominated by kauri, rimu, rātā, kahikatea and rewarewa. The areas adjacent to the Swanson Stream were an alluvial flood zone, favoured by kahikatea and tōtara trees. History E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waitākere Ranges Local Board Area , a district of Auckland Council
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Waitākere is a locality name in West Auckland, New Zealand. It most commonly refers to: * Waitākere, Auckland, a rural town north-west of Auckland *Waitakere City, a former territorial authority which existed from 1989 to 2010 *Waitākere Ranges, a mountain range in West Auckland Waitākere may also refer to: *Waitakere City FC, a football club * Waitākere College, a school in Henderson, New Zealand *Waitakere (New Zealand electorate), a former parliamentary electorate * Waitakere railway station in Waitākere town * Waitākere Reservoir in the Waitākere Ranges *Waitākere River in the Waitākere Ranges * Waitākere volcano, a former volcano in the Miocene era *Waitākere ward Waitākere Ward is a district of Auckland Council in New Zealand. It consists of the part of the old Waitakere City lying west of a line from Te Atatū Peninsula to Titirangi. The ward elects two councillors, currently Shane Henderson and Ken T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Streets In Auckland
Streets is the plural of street, a type of road. Streets or The Streets may also refer to: Music * Streets (band), a rock band fronted by Kansas vocalist Steve Walsh * ''Streets'' (punk album), a 1977 compilation album of various early UK punk bands * '' Streets...'', a 1975 album by Ralph McTell * '' Streets: A Rock Opera'', a 1991 album by Savatage * "Streets" (song) by Doja Cat, from the album ''Hot Pink'' (2019) * "Streets", a song by Avenged Sevenfold from the album ''Sounding the Seventh Trumpet'' (2001) * The Streets, alias of Mike Skinner, a British rapper * "The Streets" (song) by WC featuring Snoop Dogg and Nate Dogg, from the album ''Ghetto Heisman'' (2002) Other uses * ''Streets'' (film), a 1990 American horror film * Streets (ice cream), an Australian ice cream brand owned by Unilever * Streets (solitaire), a variant of the solitaire game Napoleon at St Helena * Tai Streets (born 1977), American football player * Will Streets (1886–1916), English soldier and poe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roads In New Zealand
A road is a linear way for the conveyance of traffic that mostly has an improved surface for use by vehicles (motorized and non-motorized) and pedestrians. Unlike streets, the main function of roads is transportation. There are many types of roads, including parkways, avenues, controlled-access highways (freeways, motorways, and expressways), tollways, interstates, highways, thoroughfares, and local roads. The primary features of roads include lanes, sidewalks (pavement), roadways (carriageways), median strip, medians, shoulder (road), shoulders, road verge, verges, bike paths (cycle paths), and shared-use paths. Definitions Historically many roads were simply recognizable routes without any formal construction or some maintenance. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) defines a road as "a line of communication (travelled way) using a stabilized base other than rails or air strips open to p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tourist Attractions In Auckland
Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours. The World Tourism Organization defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only", as people "travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure and not less than 24 hours, business and other purposes". Tourism can be domestic (within the traveller's own country) or international, and international tourism has both incoming and outgoing implications on a country's balance of payments. Tourism numbers declined as a result of a strong economic slowdown (the late-2000s recession) between the second half of 2008 and the end of 2009, and in consequence of the outbreak of the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus, but slowly recovered until the COVID-19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder Of Grace Millane
Grace Emmie Rose Millane (2 December 1996 – 2 December 2018) was a British tourist whose disappearance in Auckland, New Zealand, in December 2018 sparked international attention. A 26-year-old man, Jesse Shane Kempson was charged with her murder on 8 December 2018, and her body was found in the Waitākere Ranges to the west of Auckland the following day. Kempson's name was suppressed by New Zealand courts, meaning it could not be published in New Zealand; however, some international media outlets chose to publish it contrary to the New Zealand court order. Kempson was tried at the Auckland High Court in November 2019; he claimed that she had died during consensual sex. After a three-week trial, he was convicted by a unanimous guilty verdict and later sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum non-parole period of 17 years. Kempson filed an appeal against his conviction, which was dismissed by New Zealand's Court of Appeal on 18 December 2020. The suppression order was lift ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auckland Libraries
Auckland Libraries is the public library system for the Auckland Region of New Zealand. It was created when the seven separate councils in the Auckland region merged in 2010. It is currently the largest public-library network in the Southern Hemisphere with 55 branches from Wellsford to Waiuku. Currently from March 2021, the region has a total of 56 branches. History In November 2010, Auckland's local councils merged to create the Auckland Council. As a result of this process, the seven public library systems within the region were combined to form Auckland Libraries. The following library networks were amalgamated, forming Auckland Libraries: * Auckland City Libraries * Bookinopolis (in the Franklin District) * Manukau Libraries * North Shore Libraries * Papakura Library ServicesThe Sir Edmund Hillary Library * Rodney Libraries * Waitakere Libraries The process of amalgamation In the years leading up to the merger of the library systems within Auckland, the separate library ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auckland Exhibition
The Auckland Exhibition, also known as the Auckland Industrial, Agricultural and Mining Exhibition, was held in Auckland Domain, Auckland, New Zealand, in 1913 and 1914. Opening The Auckland Industrial, Agricultural and Mining Exhibition was opened on 1 December 1913 by its chairman, George Elliott, with the Prime Minister (William Massey) and mayor of Auckland (Peter Dignan) also in attendance. A message of welcome was read from King George V. There were 18,000 attendees on the opening day, and the fair ran until 18 April 1914 Exhibits and entertainment Buildings included a concert hall, art gallery, machinery court, palace of industries, and an exhibition tower. Entertainments in the fair's "Wonderland" included a water shute, tobaggons, a figure-8 railway and a tea room. Postage stamps Stamps were issued to mark the exhibition, but although the monarch was now George V, the stamps commemorating the event were overprints of Edward VII Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waitākere Volcano , a district of Auckland Council
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Waitākere is a locality name in West Auckland, New Zealand. It most commonly refers to: *Waitākere, Auckland, a rural town north-west of Auckland *Waitakere City, a former territorial authority which existed from 1989 to 2010 *Waitākere Ranges, a mountain range in West Auckland Waitākere may also refer to: *Waitakere City FC, a football club * Waitākere College, a school in Henderson, New Zealand *Waitakere (New Zealand electorate), a former parliamentary electorate * Waitakere railway station in Waitākere town * Waitākere Reservoir in the Waitākere Ranges *Waitākere River in the Waitākere Ranges * Waitākere volcano, a former volcano in the Miocene era *Waitākere ward Waitākere Ward is a district of Auckland Council in New Zealand. It consists of the part of the old Waitakere City lying west of a line from Te Atatū Peninsula to Titirangi. The ward elects two councillors, currently Shane Henderson and Ken T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miocene
The Miocene ( ) is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma). The Miocene was named by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell; the name comes from the Greek words (', "less") and (', "new") and means "less recent" because it has 18% fewer modern marine invertebrates than the Pliocene has. The Miocene is preceded by the Oligocene and is followed by the Pliocene. As Earth went from the Oligocene through the Miocene and into the Pliocene, the climate slowly cooled towards a series of ice ages. The Miocene boundaries are not marked by a single distinct global event but consist rather of regionally defined boundaries between the warmer Oligocene and the cooler Pliocene Epoch. During the Early Miocene, the Arabian Peninsula collided with Eurasia, severing the connection between the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean, and allowing a faunal interchange to occur between Eurasia and Africa, including the dispersal of proboscideans into Eurasia. During the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pukematekeo
Pukematekeo is a hill in the Waitākere Ranges of the Auckland Region of New Zealand's North Island. It is located west of Henderson, and is the northernmost hill in the Waitākere Ranges Regional Park. Description The hill is a 336-metre peak in the Waitākere Ranges, and is the northern-most hill in the ranges. The hill is the source for two river systems: the Kumeū River, which flows north to meet the Kaipara River and eventually flows into the Kaipara Harbour, and the Cassel Stream, which flows eastwards to join the Swanson Stream, which flows into Te Wai-o-Pareira / Henderson Creek and the Waitematā Harbour. The hill is accessible by Scenic Drive, and is a starting point for the Pukematekeo Track, a walking track linking the peak and the Waitākere Golf Club to the west. Geology Pukematekeo is the remnant of one of the eastern vents of the Waitākere Volcano, a Miocene era volcanic crater complex which was uplifted from the seafloor between 3 and 5 million years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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