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Howick

Howick is a suburb of East Auckland, . The area was traditionally settled by Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki, and in 1847 Howick was established as a defensive settlement for Auckland, by veteran fencible soldiers of the British Army.
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  • Type: Suburb with 11,600 residents
  • Description: suburb of Auckland, New Zealand
  • Also known as: “Howick Town District” and “Howick, New Zealand”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Stockade Hill and Garden of Memories.

Park
Photo: Prosperosity, CC BY 4.0.
, Howick was the location of a stockade built by British settlers to defend from indigenous Māori during the British colonisation of New Zealand.

Park
Photo: PBrobbel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a park.

Cemetery
Photo: Prosperosity, CC BY 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mellons Bay and Cockle Bay.

Suburb
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is a suburb of East Auckland. It is south of Eastern Beach and north of Howick.

Suburb
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is a suburb of East Auckland, . The suburb is in the Howick local board, one of the 21 administrative divisions of Auckland.

Suburb
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is an eastern suburb of the city of , New Zealand. Most of the houses were built in the 1990s. Before 1990, the area was rural.

Howick

Latitude
-36.89569° or 36° 53′ 45″ south
Longitude
174.92861° or 174° 55′ 43″ east
Population
11,600
Elevation
52 metres (171 feet)
Named after
Lord Howick
United Nations Location Code
NZ AUC
Open location code
4VMP4W3H+PC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 309041014
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
2189715
Wiki­data ID
Q5921903
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Turkish—“Howick” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Howick”
  • Bulgarian: “Хоуик”
  • Chinese: “豪威克区”
  • Dutch: “Howick”
  • French: “Howick”
  • German: “Howick”
  • Japanese: “ハーウィック”
  • Japanese: “ホーウィック”
  • Macedonian: “Хауик”
  • Malay: “Howick, New Zealand”
  • Polish: “Howick”
  • Turkish: “Howick”

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Localities in the Area

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Howick”. Photo: Gaolezhe, CC BY 4.0.