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
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 9/12/2010 11:56:41 AM UTC,

  • Auckland is the 54th 51st 48th 35th most active graticule in the world with 14 16 17 20 expeditions logged;
  • Ranked the 51st 38th 32nd 30th graticule in the world based on 12 14 15 17 successful expeditions with coordinates reached;
  • Oh, and for the record, Auckland was the 3rd most active graticule for the month of August 2010 :)

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

Geohashes Not Reached

Photos

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