Onepoto

Onepoto is a locality of Porirua City in New Zealand. It is bounded to the north by Whitireia Park, a large park which is slowly being returned to native bush, and to the east by the Porirua Harbour.

Type: Neighborhood with 2,010 residents
Description: suburb of Porirua, New Zealand
Also known as: “Onepoto, Wellington”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Paremata railway station and Royal New Zealand Police College.

Paremata railway station

Railway station

Photo: Axver, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Paremata railway station on the Kāpiti Line section of the North Island Main Trunk Railway in Paremata in the city of Porirua, New Zealand, is part of the Wellington Region's Metlink suburban rail network.

Royal New Zealand Police College

College

Photo: Karora, Public domain.

The Royal New Zealand Police College is the central training institution for police recruits and police officers in New Zealand. It is located at Papakowhai, approximately 2 km north of Porirua City.

Gear Homestead

Pub

Photo: Twokatz, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Gear Homestead, named Okowai by its original owner James Gear, is a historic building in Porirua, New Zealand. It was listed by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust as a Category 2 historic place in 1983.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tītahi Bay and Papakōwhai.

Tītahi Bay

Suburb

Photo: Rudolph89, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Tītahi Bay, also written Titahi Bay, is a suburb of Porirua in metropolitan Wellington, in the lower North Island of New Zealand. It lies at the foot of a short peninsula on the west coast of the Porirua Harbour, to the north of Porirua city centre.

Papakōwhai

Suburb

Photo: Arnhemcr, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Papakōwhai is a suburb of Porirua City. It lies approximately 22 kilometres north of Wellington in New Zealand. The name "Papakōwhai" in the Māori language means "yellow earth".