Otahuhu

Otahuhu is a suburb of Auckland in New Zealand. It belongs administratively to Auckland City and is 13 km south-east of the center on a narrow isthmus between an arm of the Manukau Harbour to the west and the Tamaki River in the east. At the 2001 census Otahuhu had 11,991 inhabitants.

This suburb is an important access for road and rail connections leading from the South to Auckland and has a major bus terminal. It is the southernmost suburb of Auckland and is considered one of South Auckland. In the East is East Tamaki, Otara in the southeast, south Middlemore, Mangere East in the Southwest. To the west lies Favona, northwest and north of Westfield Mt Wellington

The isthmus at Otahuhu connects the North Auckland Peninsula and the rest of the North Island of New Zealand. The narrowest point between Otahuhu Creek and Mangere Inlet is only about 1200 meters wide. The Portage Road crosses the isthmus at this point and was before European colonization used by Māori to portage their canoes between the Manukau and Waitemata Harbour. Today, a railway line and a " State Highway " highway runs through the isthmus. In Otahuhu is both a railway station and a Fernbusknotenpunkt.

The suburb was erected in 1847, originally as a garrison town in order to protect the settlement from the Māori Auckland Waikato region. The state awarded to former soldiers there garden and residential real estate. You should be rapidly mobilized as a defender.

In Otahuhu there was the first supermarket in New Zealand. The world-renowned saxophonist and jazz composer Hayden Chisholm was born in there. At Otahuhu College met several famous people in New Zealand, as heavyweight boxer David Tua, Prime Minister David Lange and the Mayor of Manukau, Sir Barry Curtis.

Sons and daughters of the city

• Max Grace ( b. 1942 ), cyclist