Warkworth is a town on the Northland Peninsula in the upper North Island of New Zealand. It is in the northern part of the Auckland Region. It is located on State Highway 1, 64 km (40 mi) north of Auckland and 98 km (61 mi) south of Whangarei, and is at the head of Mahurangi Harbour.
Titirangi is a suburb of West Auckland in the Waitākere Ranges local board area of the city of Auckland in northern New Zealand. It is an affluent, residential suburb located 13 kilometres to the southwest of the Auckland city centre, at the southern end of the Waitākere Ranges. In the Māori language "Titirangi" means "long streaks of cloud in the sky", but this is often given as "fringe of heaven".
The Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira is one of New Zealand's most important museums and war memorials. Its collections concentrate on New Zealand history, natural history, and military history. The present museum building was constructed in the 1920s in the neo-classicist style, and sits on a grassed plinth in the Auckland Domain, a large public park close to the Auckland CBD.
Parnell is a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. It is one of New Zealand's most affluent suburbs, consistently ranked within the top three wealthiest, and is often billed as Auckland's "oldest suburb" since it dates from the earliest days of the European settlement of Auckland in 1841. It is characterised by its mix of tree lined streets with large estates; redeveloped industrial zones with Edwardian town houses and 1920s bay villas; and its hilly topography that allows for views of the port, the Waitematā Harbour, Rangitoto Island and the Auckland Domain. To its west lies the Auckland Domain, to the south Newmarket, and to the north the Ports of Auckland.
The Mahurangi River is a tidal estuary in northern New Zealand that widens into the Mahurangi Harbour before opening into the outer Hauraki Gulf. The Mahurangi Harbour provides a sheltered anchorage for private pleasure craft in all weathers. The river itself is extremely tidal and ranges in depth from below approximately 50 centimetres (20 in) at the channel entrance to approximately 150 centimetres (59 in) further upstream.
Kauri gum is resin from kauri trees, which historically had several important industrial uses. It can also be used to make crafts such as jewellery. Kauri forests once covered much of the North Island of New Zealand, before the arrival of people caused deforestation, causing several areas to revert to sand dunes, scrubs, and swamps. Even afterwards, ancient kauri fields continued to provide a source for the gum and the remaining forests.
Geoffrey James Harwood Moon was a New Zealand naturalist, ornithologist, conservationist, veterinary surgeon and photographer. He was the author and photographer of many books on New Zealand birds and landscape. Moon was the patron of the Wingspan Birds of Prey Trust and the Photographic Society of New Zealand. He was also a Waitakere arts laureate, a distinguished life member of the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand, an honorary fellow of the Photographic Society of New Zealand and an associate of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain.
Papakura is a southern suburb of Auckland, in northern New Zealand. It is located on the shores of the Pahurehure Inlet, approximately 32 kilometres south of the Auckland CBD. It is under the authority of the Auckland Council.
Oratia is a semi-rural locality on the western edge of metropolitan West Auckland in New Zealand.
Matakana is a small town in the Rodney Ward of Auckland Council of New Zealand. Warkworth lies about 9 km to the south-west, Snells Beach the same distance to the south, Omaha is about 7 km to the east, and Leigh about 13 km to the north-east. The Matakana River flows through the town and into Kawau Bay to the south-east.
Henry Winkelmann (1860–1931) was a notable New Zealand photographer. Winkelmann's photographs covered a wide range of topics, but he is best known for his yachting photographs.
Josiah Martin (1843–1916) was a New Zealand teacher and photographer.
Eunice Harriett "Una" Garlick was a New Zealand photographer, known for her pictorialism style--a movement stressing photography's role as art. Her subject matter was mainly concerned with landscapes and Māori studies. Her most notable work is a series of portraits depicting Maori women.
Peter Dignan was the fifteenth Mayor of Auckland who held the office in 1897 and 1898. He was the first New Zealand-born and probably the first Catholic occupant of the position.
Israel Joseph Goldstine was mayor of One Tree Hill, New Zealand, from 1931 until he retired in 1947. He was a prominent barrister and solicitor in Auckland and chaired several high-profile New Zealand boards.
Olaf Petersen (1915–1994) was a New Zealand photographer who specialised in nature photography. The main subject of his photos are the islands of the Hauraki Gulf and the beaches of West Auckland.
William Barbour Beattie was a well-known and popular New Zealand photographer. He was the chief photographer of The New Zealand Herald and The Weekly News between 1940 and 1968. He worked for a total of 44 years for the Herald. Beattie is prominently remembered for his photographs which captured many aspects of New Zealand's social history in the twentieth century.
Bruce William Hayward is a New Zealand geologist, marine ecologist, and author. He is known as a leading expert on living and fossil foraminifera.
John Thomas Diamond was an amateur New Zealand historian and archaeologist. Over 70 years, Diamond documented the industrial, archaeological and social history of West Auckland.
The Dome Forest is a forested area of Rodney in the Auckland Region of New Zealand.
