Waitakere City
Waitakere City was a territorial authority in West Auckland, New Zealand; it was governed by the Waitakere City Council from 1989 to 2010. It was New Zealand's fifth-largest city, with an annual growth of about 2%.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 1,890 residents
- Description: former territorial authority district of New Zealand
- Also known as: “Waitakere” and “Whitakere”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Swanson railway station and Swanson Oaks.
Swanson railway station
Railway station
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Swanson railway station is a station on the North Auckland Line in Auckland, New Zealand. Western Line services of the Auckland rail network are operated between the station and Waitematā in central Auckland by Auckland One Rail, on behalf of Auckland Transport. Swanson railway station is situated 3½ km southeast of Waitakere City.
Swanson Oaks
Park
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Swanson Oaks is a park, which is situated 3½ km southeast of Waitakere City.
Redwood Park Golf Club
Golf course
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Redwood Park Golf Club is a golf course, which is situated 3½ km southeast of Waitakere City.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Waitākere and Taupaki.
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.
Taupaki
Hamlet
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Taupaki is a locality in the Rodney District, which is a part of the Auckland Region in New Zealand. Kumeū lies to the north-west, Whenuapai to the north-east, West Harbour to the east, Massey to the south-east, Swanson to the south, and Waitākere, Auckland to the south-west. Taupaki is situated 3½ km north of Waitakere City.
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 3½ km southeast of Waitakere City.
Waitakere City
- Category: city
- Location: Auckland, Auckland Region, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Waitakere City” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “وايتاكيري”
- Armenian: “Ուայթաքերե”
- Asturian: “Waitakere City”
- Catalan: “Waitakere”
- Cebuano: “Waitakere”
- Chinese: “怀塔克雷”
- Chinese: “懷塔克雷”
- Dutch: “Waitakere”
- French: “Waitakere”
- German: “Waitakere City”
- German: “Waitakere”
- Greek: “Γουαϊτακέρε”
- Indonesian: “Kota Waitakere”
- Italian: “Waitakere”
- Japanese: “ワイタケレ”
- Korean: “와이타케레”
- Lithuanian: “Vaitakerė”
- Malagasy: “Waitakere”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Waitakere”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Waitakere”
- Norwegian: “Waitakere City”
- Norwegian: “Waitakere”
- Polish: “Waitakere”
- Portuguese: “Waitakere”
- Russian: “Вэйтакере”
- Russian: “Уаитакере”
- Spanish: “Waitakere”
- Swedish: “Waitakere”
- Turkish: “Waitakere City”
- Ukrainian: “Вайтакере”
- Volapük: “Waitakere”
- Waray (Philippines): “Waitakere”
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