Auckland, New Zealand

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Auckland City at night
Auckland City at sunset from Mt Victoria


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 isn't 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, don't expect to get anywhere 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

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

Mostactivegraticule.png as of as of 1/7/2012 3:09:49 PM UTC,

  • Auckland is the 54th 51st 48th 35th 33rd 32nd 27th most active graticule in the world with 14 16 17 22 27 33 38 expeditions logged;
  • Ranked the 51st 38th 32nd 30th 28th 26th 29th 23rd graticule in the world based on 12 14 15 17 19 25 28 33 successful expeditions with coordinates reached;
  • Oh, and for the record, Auckland was the 3rd most active graticule for the month of August 2010, and the 2nd most active graticule in July 2011 :)

Local Geohashers

Other hashers that have come and gone can be found here:

Geohashes Reached

2012

2011 (8)

2010 (16)

2009 (2)

2008 (6)

Geohashes Not Reached

Photos