Difference between revisions of "Auckland, New Zealand"

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Today's Location: Auckland, NZ

The Auckland graticule is at latitude -36, longitude 174

Auckland City at night

Description

Auckland (Tāmaki-makau-rau (Māori)) is the largest city in New Zealand with a population of 1.4 million [1] (as at June 2009). The population density is low thus Auckland suffers from extreme suburban sprawl resulting in nearly every resident needing to own a vehicle to get anywhere in a respectable amount of time. Auckland straddles the Auckland Volcanic Field which contains around 50 volcanoes. It also lies on a skinny isthmus less than two kilometres wide at its narrowest point, and is surrounded by two harbours and associated inlets. Of the graticule, what isnt comprised of water or suburbia, is made up of regional parks, beaches and farmland, providing many opportunities for remote and beautiful geohash hunting adventures.

For the purpose of the Reverse regional achievement, the Auckland graticule comprises the following districts:
Rodney, North Shore City, Waitakere City, Auckland City, Manukau City (and Northland).
The Papakura and Franklin Districts fall under the Manukau City graticule.

Links

Maxx for information on your public transport options in the Greater Auckland Area. Although, dont expect to get any where of interest quickly or easily using public transport in Auckland.
AucklandNZ.com is the official tourism site for Auckland.
ARC the Auckland Regional Council website.

Statistics

Auckland was deflowered by gnail on 2008-06-25, although no proof was provided, and gnail was never to be seen again!

as of 8/4/2010 11:21:21 AM UTC

Auckland is the 54th most active graticule in the world with 14 expeditions logged;

Ranked the 51st graticule in the world based on 12 successful expeditions with coordinates reached;

And is the most active graticule in New Zealand.

Local Geohashers

As at 26/07/2010, Greenslime and JimmyNZ appear to be the only active geohashers in the Auckland graticule. In fact, it appears we are the only active geohashes in the whole of New Zealand! Quite a responsibility!!

Other hashers that have come and gone are:

Geohashes Reached

2010-07-20 - Greenslime - ROW, Kohimarama, Central Auckland
2010-07-13 - Greenslime - Undeveloped section, Mangere South, Auckland
2010-06-24 - Greenslime - Shakespear Regional Park, Whangaparoa Peninsula, Auckland
2010-01-24 - Greenslime and JimmyNZ - Farm Paddock, Taupaki, West Auckland
2009-09-05 - TunezNZ - East Tamaki War Memorial park sports field
2009-03-17 - TunezNZ - Corn field, Flatbush
2008-11-26 - Aspirin - No.56 Parkinson Avenue
2008-10-02 - TunezNZ - East Tamaki Industrial zone
2008-09-08 - Khadgar - Helensville
2008-08-10 - zaf - Meters off East Coast Rd, near Albany
2008-07-28 - zaf, lan - Western Park
2008-06-25 - gnail - In the parking lot of Mt Roskill Grammar School

Geohashes Not Reached

2010-06-19 - JimmyNZ - Native Bush, Parau
2008-09-13 - Unknown - Whitford

Photos

Kohimarama, Central Auckland
Mangere South. Yup, Auckland is indeed surrounded by water
Shakespear Regional Park, Whangaparoa
Parau, West Auckland
Farm Paddock, Taupaki
In one of our many parks
The Regions of Auckland

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 ==Statistics==
 [[Image:Virgin-graticule.png|25px]] Auckland was deflowered by gnail on [[2008-06-25_-36_174|2008-06-25]], although no proof was provided, and gnail was never to be seen again!
 [[Most active graticules|as of 8/4/2010 11:21:21 AM UTC]]

Northland	Whangarei	Mokohinau Islands
Glinks Gully	Auckland	Coromandel
-37,173	Manukau City	Hamilton
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