Browns Bay
Browns Bay is one of the most northernmost suburbs in the contiguous Auckland metropolitan area, located in the North Shore. Named after the Brown family who settled here in 1876, Browns Bay became a holiday destination in the late 19th century.
Photo: Follash, Public domain.- Type: Suburb with 10,600 residents
- Description: suburb of Auckland, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Browns Bay, New Zealand”
Places of Interest
Highlights include East Coast Bays Library and Browns Bay Beach Reserve.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Torbay and Long Bay.
Torbay
Torbay is a seaside suburb on the North Shore of Auckland in New Zealand. It has few attractions of its own, but is close to the beaches of Long Bay and Browns Bay, as well as sporting its own Waiake Beach.
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.
Oteha
Suburb
Oteha is an Auckland suburb, which is under local governance of Auckland Council. The area is defined by Oteha Valley Road on the north, East Coast Road on the east, Spencer Road on the south, and the Auckland Northern Motorway on the west.
Browns Bay
- Category: locality
- Location: North Shore, Auckland, Auckland Region, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-36.7156° or 36° 42′ 56″ south
Longitude
174.7482° or 174° 44′ 54″ east
Population
10,600
Elevation
31 metres (102 feet)
Named after
Peter Brown
Open location code
4VMP7PMX+P7
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Browns Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Browns Bay”
- Cebuano: “Sherwood”
- Dutch: “Browns Bay, New Zealand”
- Dutch: “Sherwood”
- French: “Browns Bay (Nouvelle-Zélande)”
- French: “Browns Bay”
- Japanese: “ブラウンズ・ベイ”
- Japanese: “ブラウンズベイ”
- Macedonian: “Браунс Беј”
- Turkish: “Browns Bay”
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