Takapuna
Takapuna is a beachside suburb on the North Shore of Auckland in New Zealand. It is the business, shopping and entertainment centre of North Shore.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Suburb with 9,140 residents
- Description: suburb of Auckland, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Takapuna, Auckland” and “Takapuna, New Zealand”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lake Pupuke and Bruce Mason Centre.
Lake Pupuke
Lake
Photo: Avenue, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lake Pupuke is a heart-shaped freshwater lake occupying a volcanic crater between the suburbs of Takapuna and Milford on the North Shore of Auckland, New Zealand.
Bruce Mason Centre
Theater building
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Bruce Mason Centre is a theater building.
Shore City Shopping Centre
Shopping center
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Shore City Shopping Centre is an enclosed shopping centre in the North Shore suburb of Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand established in 1974. It was previously owned by Westfield Group and is now owned and managed by Precision Group.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Forrest Hill and Hillcrest.
Forrest Hill
Suburb
Photo: Follash, Public domain.
Forrest Hill is a suburb located on the North Shore of Auckland, New Zealand. Forrest Hill is under the local governance of Auckland Council. It was previously governed by the North Shore City Council, which amalgamated into Auckland Council on 1 November 2010.
Hillcrest
Suburb
Hillcrest is a suburb of the contiguous Auckland metropolitan area located in New Zealand. Since 2010, it has been under the jurisdiction of the Auckland Council, and is located in the North Shore, surrounded by Glenfield, Wairau Valley, Northcote and Birkenhead.
Milford
Suburb
Photo: National Library NZ on The Commons, Public domain.
Milford is a suburb located on the North Shore, Auckland. It is located on northern side of Lake Pupuke. It also has a popular swimming beach, which runs some two kilometres from Black Rock in the south to Castor Bay in the north.
Takapuna
- Category: locality
- Location: North Shore, Auckland, Auckland Region, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-36.7878° or 36° 47′ 16″ southLongitude
174.773° or 174° 46′ 23″ eastPopulation
9,140Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)United Nations Location Code
NZ TAKOpen location code
4VMP6Q6F+V5OpenStreetMap ID
node 98145103OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Takapuna” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تاكابونا”
- Catalan: “Takapuna”
- Chinese: “塔卡普納”
- Chinese: “塔卡普纳”
- Czech: “Takapuna”
- Danish: “Takapuna”
- French: “Takapuna”
- German: “Takapuna”
- Hebrew: “טקפונה”
- Irish: “Takapuna”
- Italian: “Takapuna”
- Japanese: “タカプナ”
- Korean: “타카푸나”
- Macedonian: “Такапуна”
- Persian: “تاکاپونا”
- Russian: “Такапуна”
- Scots: “Takapuna”
- Spanish: “Takapuna (Auckland)”
- Spanish: “Takapuna”
- Swedish: “Takapuna”
- Tagalog: “Takapuna”
- Turkish: “Takapuna”
- Urdu: “تکاپونا”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Takapuna”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.