Ōkura
Ōkura is a rural settlement to the north of Auckland City, New Zealand. It is under the local governance of the Auckland Council. The official name is spelled with a macron.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 372 residents
- Description: suburb of Auckland, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Okura” and “Ōkura, New Zealand”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vaughan Homestead and Pōhutukawa Bay.
Vaughan Homestead
Manor estate
Photo: russellstreet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Vaughan Homestead is a manor estate, which is situated 2½ km east of Ōkura.
Pōhutukawa Bay
Beach
Pōhutukawa Bay is a beach north of Long Bay, located on the North Shore of Auckland. It is situated northeast of Ōkura, close to Piripiri Point. Directly south of Pōhutukawa Bay Beach is Granny's Bay Beach, and a little further south is Long Bay Regional Park. Pōhutukawa Bay is situated 2½ km east of Ōkura.
Long Bay College
School
Long Bay College is a state co-educational secondary school located in Torbay, a suburb of the North Shore in Auckland, New Zealand. The decile 10 school serves Years 9 to 13, and has 1844 students as of July 2025. Long Bay College is situated 2½ km southeast of Ōkura.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Redvale and Long Bay.
Redvale
Hamlet
Photo: russellstreet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Redvale is a settlement slightly north of the Auckland metropolitan area, in New Zealand. Part of it is located in the North Shore, and most of Redvale is rural.
Long Bay
Long Bay is a beachside suburb on the North Shore of Auckland in New Zealand, whose Long Bay Regional Park is a popular recreational attraction.
Waiake
Suburb
Photo: Bjankuloski06, CC BY 4.0.
Waiake is one of the northernmost suburbs of the North Shore, in Auckland, New Zealand. It is located in the East Coast Bays between the suburbs of Browns Bay to the south and Torbay to the north. Waiake is situated 3½ km southeast of Ōkura.
Ōkura
- Categories: suburb and locality
- Location: Auckland Region, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-36.67481° or 36° 40′ 29″ southLongitude
174.71968° or 174° 43′ 11″ eastPopulation
372Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)Open location code
4VMP8PG9+3VOpenStreetMap ID
node 865417781OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
6231788Wikidata ID
Q16896081
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Satellite Map
Discover Ōkura from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Dutch to Turkish—“Ōkura” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Okura, New Zealand”
- French: “Okura (Nouvelle-Zélande)”
- French: “Okura”
- Japanese: “オクラ”
- Turkish: “Ōkura”
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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 “Ōkura”. Photo: Gadfium, CC0.