West Tamaki Head

West Tamaki Head is a headland in New Zealand and has an elevation of 41 metres. West Tamaki Head is situated nearby to the suburb St Heliers, as well as near Glendowie.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mother of Perpetual Help Catholic Church and Whakamuhu / Glover Park.

Mother of Perpetual Help Catholic Church

Church

Photo: Spil030, CC BY 4.0.

Whakamuhu / Glover Park

Volcano

Photo: Bruce Hayward, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Whakamuhu / Glover Park is a volcano.

St Heliers Library is a local branch of Auckland Libraries, serving the suburb of Saint Heliers. The library was formally opened as the Tamaki Library in 1931, in the former offices of the Tamaki West Road Board.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include St Heliers and Glendowie.

St Heliers

Suburb

Photo: Carpenter0, Public domain.

St Heliers is a seaside suburb of Auckland with a population of 11,760 as of June 2025. St Heliers is located at the eastern end of Tamaki Drive, and used to be the place where the Tamaki estuary formally divided Auckland from Manukau City, until the entire Auckland region was amalgamated under a single city authority, the Auckland Council, in 2010.

Glendowie

Suburb

Photo: Clivostros, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Glendowie is a suburb in Auckland, New Zealand. It is under the local governance of Auckland Council. It was under Auckland City Council from 1989 until the merger of all of Auckland's councils into the "super city" in 2010.

Wai o Taiki Bay

Suburb

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.

Wai o Taiki Bay is a suburb in Auckland, New Zealand. It is under the local governance of Auckland Council. Wai o Taiki Bay is situated 2½ km south of West Tamaki Head.

West Tamaki Head

Type: Headland with an elevation of 41 metres
Category: landform
Location: New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude

-36.85° or 36° 51′ south

Longitude

174.86667° or 174° 52′ east

Elevation

41 metres (135 feet)

Open location code

4VMP4VX8+XM

GeoNames ID

2179446

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