Waitākere Dam

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Places of Interest Nearby

Waitākere Falls

Waterfall

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The Waitākere River is a river of the Auckland Region of New Zealand's North Island. It flows north then west from its sources in the Waitākere Ranges, reaching the Tasman Sea at Te Henga / Bethells Beach, to the south of Muriwai Beach.

Waitākere Reservoir

Reservoir

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Waitākere Reservoir is a reservoir on the Waitakere River in the Waitākere Ranges, west of Auckland in New Zealand. The dam was completed in 1910 and is a concrete gravity dam with a slight curvature.

Places in the Area

Waiatarua

Hamlet

Photo: Andrew Harvey, CC BY 3.0.

Waiatarua is a small settlement near the top of the Waitākere Ranges in West Auckland, close to the junction of Scenic Drive, West Coast Road and Piha Road to Piha and runs east until the junction of Scenic Drive and Mountain Road. Waiatarua is situated 6 km southeast of Waitākere Dam.

Waitākere

Suburb

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Waitākere, often called Waitākere Township or Waitākere Town, is a small, mostly rural settlement to the northwest of Auckland, New Zealand. Waitākere is situated 6 km north of Waitākere Dam.

Swanson

Suburb

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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. Swanson is situated 6 km northeast of Waitākere Dam.

Waitākere Dam

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