Pakuranga

Pakuranga

Suburb:Pakuranga
City:Manukau
Island:North Island
Surrounded by
- to the north
- to the north-east
- to the east
- to the south
- to the west
- to the north-west

Tamaki River, Panmure
Sunnyhills (1.8 km)Mellons Bay, Bucklands Beach
Pakuranga Heights Botany Downs, Golflands, Howick
Tamaki River, Pakuranga Creek
Tamaki River, Mount Wellington
Panmure (2.0 km)

Pakuranga is a suburb of Manukau City, one of the cities which form the conurbation of Auckland, in northern New Zealand. It is located to the northeast of Manukau City centre, and 15 kilometres southeast of the Auckland central business district. According to the 2001 census, Pakuranga has a population of 8907.

Pakuranga is on a peninsula formed by the Pakuranga Creek and Tamaki River, two estuarial arms of the Hauraki Gulf. It is connected by bridge with Panmure. Although there had been a bridge here from as early as 1866, it was not until the construction of a sturdy structure across the Tamaki River in the 1950s, and the increasing levels of car ownership that Pakuranga became suburban.

Many of the American style houses of the 1950s and 1960s are still noticeable but much of the appeal of the early suburb lay in the proximity of untouched countryside. Since the 1970s Pakuranga has been surrounded and engulfed by suburban developments on a much larger scale but of less architectural merit. Traffic travelling to and from these suburbs and the centre of Auckland is largely funnelled through the roadways of Pakuranga which has degraded the area somewhat as well.

Despite this today Pakuranga remains an attractive suburb, with some light industry, centred around the Pakuranga Town Centre 1965. The mall itself has been transformed several times since it first went up and retains nothing of the naive 1960s charm and appeal it once had. There is a good public art gallery located here. Schools in Pakuranga include the prestigious private school Saint Kentigern College.

The suburb's name is Maori for "battle of the sunlight". This peculiar name is the result of a legend about a battle between mythical nocturnal creatures. The battle raged fiercely until a Maori priest caused the sun to rise earlier than expected. Caught by surprise in the rays of the sun, the monsters perished.

ee also

*Pakuranga (NZ electorate)

External links

* [http://www.times.co.nz/cms/index_howick_wlcome.php History of Howick and Pakuranga]
* [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Pakuranga,+New+Zealand&ie=UTF8&z=14&om=1&iwloc=A Google Map of Pakuranga]


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