Starship Children’s Hospital

Starship Children's Hospital is a public children's hospital in Auckland, New Zealand. It was one of the first purpose-built children's hospitals in New Zealand, and is the largest such facility in the country.

Photo: Ingolfson, Public domain.

Type: Hospital building
Description: children’s hospital in New Zealand
Also known as: “Starship Children’s Health” and “Starship Hospital”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Auckland City Hospital and Auckland War Memorial Museum.

Auckland City Hospital

Hospital

Photo: Ingolfson, Public domain.

Auckland City Hospital is a tertiary level public hospital located in Park Rd, Grafton, Auckland, New Zealand. It is the largest hospital in New Zealand, with a total of 1,187 beds.

Auckland War Memorial Museum

Museum

Photo: Auckland War Memorial Museum, CC BY 2.0.

The Auckland War Memorial Museum, also known as Auckland Museum, is one of New Zealand's most important museums and war memorials. Its neoclassical building constructed in the 1920s and 1950s, stands on Observatory Hill, the remains of a dormant volcano, in the Auckland Domain, near Auckland CBD. Auckland War Memorial Museum is situated 720 metres east of Starship Children’s Hospital.

Auckland Domain

Park

Photo: Ingolfson, Public domain.

The Auckland Domain, also known as Pukekawa / Auckland Domain, is a large park in Auckland, New Zealand. Consisting of 75 hectares of land, Auckland Domain is the oldest park in the city.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Grafton and Carlaw Park.

Grafton

Suburb

Photo: Oskari.miettinen, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Grafton is a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. The suburb is named for the Duke of Grafton, a patron of the first Governor of New Zealand, William Hobson, and the grandfather of a subsequent Governor, Robert FitzRoy.

Carlaw Park

Neighborhood

Photo: Gadfium, Public domain.

Carlaw Park was a multi-purpose stadium in Parnell, a central suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. It neighboured the Auckland Domain's Northern end. It was primarily used for rugby league and had a peak spectator capacity of around 28,000 in the 1930s, though this fell to around 17,000 by the time the ground was closed in 2002.

Newton

Quarter

Photo: Helenalex, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Newton is a small suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, under the local governance of the Auckland Council. Since the construction of the Central Motorway Junction in 1965–75, Newton has been divided into two parts, and as a result, lost much of its size and coherence.

Starship Children’s Hospital

Categories: children’s hospital, nonprofit organization, building, and health care
Location: Auckland, Auckland Region, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude

-36.85958° or 36° 51′ 35″ south

Longitude

174.76991° or 174° 46′ 12″ east

Inception

1991

Height

16 metres (52 feet)

Open location code

4VMP4QR9+5X

OpenStreetMap ID

way 23921365

OpenStreetMap feature

building=hospital

Wikidata ID

Q7602413

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In Other Languages

“Starship Children’s Hospital” goes by many names.

French: “hôpital Starship”
French: “Hôpital Starship”
French: “Starship Children’s Health”
French: “Starship Children’s Hospital”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Ernest And Marion Davis Library and Puawaitahi / Auckland City Child Protection Team.

Nearby Places

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