Everything about The Tamaki River totally explained
The
Tamaki River is, despite its name, an
estuarial arm and
harbour of the
Hauraki Gulf, within the city of
Auckland in
New Zealand. It extends south for 15 kilometres from its mouth between the Auckland suburb of Saint Heliers and the long thin
peninsula of Bucklands Beach, which reaches its end at
Musick Point.
The inlet extends past the suburbs of
Glendowie,
Glen Innes,
Tamaki,
Panmure, and
Otahuhu to the west, and
Sunnyhills and
Pakuranga to the east.
It has several smaller "tributary arms" which extend from it: the Pakuranga Creek and Otara Creek in the east, and the Otahuhu Creek and
Panmure Basin in the west. The Otahuhu Creek forms the eastern shore of the narrowest point on the Auckland
isthmus: here it's less than two kilometres to the waters of the
Manukau Harbour, an arm of the
Tasman Sea.
It has a marina /ferry wharf at
Half Moon Bay, from where commuter ferries depart for the
Auckland CBD and car ferries for
Waiheke Island.
Portage Road is the location of one of the overland routes between the two coasts. Here the Maori would beach their
waka (canoe)s and drag them overland to the other coast, thus avoiding having to paddle around
North Cape. This made the area of immense strategic importance in both pre-European times and during the early years of European occupation.
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