Waitemata Harbour

Waitemata Harbour is a 70 km ² large natural harbor in New Zealand and one of the main access roads of Auckland from the sea. It connects the city center and the port facilities with the Hauraki Gulf and thus to the Pacific. The port is protected by the islands of Rangitoto and Waiheke Iceland Iceland before the Pacific storms. Another island in the harbor is Watchman Iceland.

On this port is often referred to by the name of Auckland Harbour, despite Auckland Manukau Harbour has with a second port. Waitemata Harbour is the northern and eastern coasts of the Isthmus of Auckland, the larger, but because of shallow water and dangerous shoals less economically significant Manukau Harbour to the south and west coast.

The name comes from the language of the Māori. Wai te Mataa refers to obsidian. The " sparkling water " ( a later transfer of the meaning) of the port should sparkle like the volcanic glass, which was appreciated by the early arrivals in the area.

The harbor is an arm of the Hauraki Gulf, extending from the end of the Rangitoto Channel 18 km westward. Its entrance is between North Head and Bastion Point in the south. The western end of the harbor extends to the northwest through Whenuapai addition, in the west to Te Atatu. The port also forms an estuary in the southwest, known as the Whau River.

The North Coast is one formed by North Shore City, of several cities of the metropolitan Auckland. Suburbs close to the coast from west to east: Birkenhead, Northcote and Devonport.

To the south is the center of Auckland City with Auckland waterfront, also from east to west, the Küstenvorstädte as Mission Bay, Parnell, Herne Bay and Point Chevalier. The latter is on a small triangular peninsula projecting into the harbor.

At its narrowest point, the port of the Auckland Harbour Bridge is crossed. To the east of its south end of the Marina lies of West Haven, the suburb of Freemans Bay and the Viaduct Basin. Further to the east of it, near the harbor entrance are the harbor to Auckland.

Geologically, the port a sunken valley system in sediments of marine origin from the Miocene. The coast was then heavily influenced especially in the west and north of tidal currents. From mangrove covered Watt coasts and salt marshes were typical for this time.

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