West Tāmaki Head

West Tāmaki Head is a cape in Auckland, Auckland Region. West Tāmaki Head is situated nearby to the suburb Glendowie, as well as near St Heliers.

Photo: Clivostros, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Type: Cape
Description: headland in Auckland, New Zealand
Also known as: “West Tamaki Head”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Churchill Park School and Whakamuhu / Glover Park.

Churchill Park School

School

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Churchill Park School is a co-ed primary and intermediate school in Glendowie, Auckland, New Zealand. It teaches from year one until year eight. It is surrounded by Churchill Park.

Whakamuhu / Glover Park

Volcano

Photo: Bruce Hayward, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Whakamuhu / Glover Park is a volcano.

Mother of Perpetual Help Catholic Church

Church

Photo: Spil030, CC BY 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Glendowie and St Heliers.

Glendowie is a suburb in Auckland, New Zealand. It is under the local governance of Auckland Council. It was under Auckland City Council from 1989 until the merger of all of Auckland's councils into the "super city" in 2010.

St Heliers

Suburb

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St Heliers is a seaside suburb of Auckland with a population of 11,760 as of June 2025. St Heliers is located at the eastern end of Tamaki Drive, and used to be the place where the Tamaki estuary formally divided Auckland from Manukau City, until the entire Auckland region was amalgamated under a single city authority, the Auckland Council, in 2010.