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Explore Southdown
The district Southdown of Auckland in Auckland (Auckland) is located in New Zealand about 302 mi north of Wellington, the country's capital.
If you need a place to sleep, we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
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Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 20°C / 67 °F
Morning Temperature | 15°C / 59 °F |
Evening Temperature | 18°C / 64 °F |
Night Temperature | 17°C / 63 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 3% |
Air Humidity | 70% |
Air Pressure | 1016 hPa |
Wind Speed | Gentle Breeze with 8 km/h (5 mph) from East |
Cloud Conditions | Broken clouds, covering 83% of sky |
General Conditions | Light rain |
Saturday, 20th of April 2024
19°C (66 °F)
16°C (61 °F)
Moderate rain, moderate breeze, overcast clouds.
Sunday, 21st of April 2024
18°C (65 °F)
16°C (62 °F)
Light rain, fresh breeze, broken clouds.
Monday, 22nd of April 2024
18°C (65 °F)
15°C (59 °F)
Light rain, moderate breeze, overcast clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
GREENLANE MANOR MOTEL
Cotter House
Oak Tree Motel
540 on Great South Motel
Tudor Court Motor Lodge
BEST WESTERN NEWMARKET INN STS
Cornwall Park Motor Inn
Knights Inn
Parklane Motor Lodge
BEST WESTERN ELLERSLIE INTL
Videos from this area
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City of Sails Stockcar Classic
Stockcar Race Footage from Waikaraka Park Speedways Opening meeting 27 Oct 2012.
NZ Velodogs-1 or Cycling with Dogs
NZ VeloDogs running along bikes on the Manukau Coastal Walkway / Cycleway at dusk. More Videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc-ibrbQyu1BO0CX2OGO0RA/videos on 'Misha-Jessie Dogs' ...
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Mount Smart Stadium
Mt Smart Stadium, (also known as Ericsson Stadium in the 1990s), is a stadium in Auckland, New Zealand. It is the home ground of National Rugby League team, the New Zealand Warriors. Built within the quarried remnants of the Mount Smart volcanic cone, it is located 10 kilometres south of the city centre, in the suburb of Penrose.
Mount Wellington, New Zealand
Mount Wellington is a peak and a suburb in Auckland City, New Zealand
Penrose, New Zealand
Penrose is an industrial suburb in Auckland City, New Zealand. It is located to the southeast of the city centre, at a distance of about nine kilometres, between the suburbs of Oranga and Mount Wellington, and close to the Mangere Inlet, an arm of the Manukau Harbour. According to the 2001 census, Penrose has a population of only 573, due to the high intensity of industrial and commercial sites in the area.
Onehunga
Onehunga is a suburb of Auckland City in New Zealand and the location of the Port of Onehunga, the city's small port on the Manukau Harbour. It is eight kilometres south of the city centre, close to the volcanic cone of One Tree Hill (Maungakiekie). The residential and light-industrial suburb, with its approximately 18,000 residents and almost 1,000 commercial and industrial businesses, stretches south from Royal Oak to the north shore of the Manukau Harbour.
Ellerslie, New Zealand
Ellerslie is a suburb of the city of Auckland, New Zealand. It is seven kilometres to the southeast of the city centre, close to State Highway 1. A largely residential suburb, the area's best known feature is Auckland's main horse racing course, Ellerslie Racecourse, as well as for being the original site of the Ellerslie Flower Show.
Mangere Bridge (bridges)
Mangere Bridge, officially also called the Manukau Harbour Crossing, is a motorway bridge over the Manukau Harbour in south-western Auckland, New Zealand, crossing between the suburb also known as Mangere Bridge (southern side) and the suburb of Onehunga (northern side). Completed in 1983, the current bridge carries a four-lane motorway (carrying approximately 80,000 vehicles daily) with a cycle and pedestrian path also suspended underneath the western side of the bridge.
Westfield Railway Station
Westfield Railway Station is located on the Eastern and Southern Lines of the Auckland Railway Network. It is near Westfield Junction, which is the junction of the Eastern and Southern Lines. It has an island platform layout and can be reached from a pedestrian overbridge at the end of Portage Road. The overbridge also spans the adjacent Westfield marshalling yards and gives access to KiwiRail's operations centre and locomotive facility.
Ellerslie Railway Station
Ellerslie Railway Station is on the Southern Line of the Auckland railway network. It has an island platform.
Southdown Railway Station
Southdown Railway Station is an unused station at Southdown on the Southern Line of the Auckland suburban railway network. It is double tracked and has an island platform layout. Services were withdrawn by the Auckland Regional Transport Authority (ARTA) on 30 May 2004 due to low patronage and safety reasons.
Penrose Railway Station
Penrose Station is a railway station in Penrose, Auckland City, on the Southern Line of the Auckland railway network, New Zealand. It has an island platform and is reached by an over bridge from Station Road and Great South Road. It still has its original wooden station building on the platform. There is also an additional platform serving the Onehunga Line along Station Road.
Ellerslie Racecourse
Ellerslie Racecourse is the main racecourse in Ellerslie, Auckland, New Zealand for thoroughbred racehorses. It is an undulating, grass circuit of approximately 1,900 m.
Favona
Favona is mostly industry-dominated suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, and is part of the Mangere area. The suburb is in the Manukau ward, one of the thirteen administrative divisions of Auckland city, and is under governance of the Auckland Council. The area has a long history of habitation, due to its fertile lands, a productive harbour, and proximity to the Manukau-Tamaki isthmus. Māori of Ngāti Whātua were the inhabitants until they were supplanted by European farmers in the 19th century.
Southdown, New Zealand
Southdown is an industrial suburb of Auckland City, New Zealand. The former main company in the suburb was the Southdown Freezing Works, part of a large industrial zone located near the main trunk railway at this point. The buildings were decommissioned during the 1980s & 1990s releasing large areas of land to be redeveloped as office parks. For many years the abattoirs located here were discharging large amounts of untreated waste into the Manukau Harbour.
Harania Creek
Harania Creek is the name of the shallow estuarine waterway in the Mangere Inlet on the Manukau Harbour, Auckland, New Zealand. The area extends from 1500 metres east of the Mangere Bridge when the tide is fully out, for 1 kilometre to the end of the harbour in the heart of Mangere. The waterway system is fed by a number of small open and piped creeks which bring runoff from residential, industrial and park areas in Otahuhu, Mangere East, and Favona.
Michael Park School
Michael Park School is a Waldorf school located in Auckland, New Zealand The school takes students from age 4 to school-leaving age. The Steiner School refers to the years 2 to 13 as Class 1 to Class 12.
Bailey Road School, Auckland
Bailey Road School is a primary school in the Auckland, New Zealand suburb of Mt Wellington.
One Tree Hill College
One Tree Hill College is a state coeducational secondary school located in the district of Penrose in Auckland, New Zealand. One Tree Hill College, formerly Penrose High School, opened on 1 February 1955. In 2009 it had a student body of 760 consisting of more than 50 different cultures. The governing body for the college since 1989 has been the One Tree Hill College (formerly Penrose High School) Board of Trustees.
Carey Baptist College
Carey Baptist College is a Bible and theological college for training in mission, ministry, and formation based in Auckland, New Zealand. It is the theological college of the Baptist Churches of New Zealand. The college was founded in 1924 as New Zealand Baptist Theological College. It held its first classes in 1926, originally training men to be ministers for Baptist churches in New Zealand.
Ellerslie School
Ellerslie School was founded in 1877, making it one of the oldest schools in Auckland, New Zealand. It is a Year 1 to Year 8 school. Ellerslie has a roll of about 500 students, with most students living in the Ellerslie/Greenlane area. Ellerslie School is in zone for One Tree Hill College. The current principal is Mr Magner. The Intermediate area of the school was upgraded in 2007, and has a multi-purpose technology block.
Mount Smart
Mount Smart is one of the volcanoes in the Auckland Volcanic Field. Quarrying removed almost all of the scoria cone, which was 87 m high (around 57 m higher than the surrounding land). It was the site of a pā and was known as Rarotonga. The former quarry is now the site of Mount Smart Stadium.
Chinese Consulate-General, Auckland
The Consulate-General of the People's Republic of China in Auckland is a diplomatic missions of the People's Republic of China (PRC) at 588 Great South Road in the Greenlane suburb of Auckland City, New Zealand. The consulate serves cities in the Auckland Region, Waikato Region, and the Northland Region.
Waikaraka Cycleway
The Waikaraka Cycleway is an off-road cycleway in the south of Auckland City, New Zealand, running from the Wesley suburb in southern Auckland City along New Zealand State Highway 20 to Onehunga and then continuing along the shoreline of the Manukau Harbour beside mostly industrialised areas until it ends at Pikes Point, near Southdown.
Te Hopua
Te Hopua a Rangi is one of the volcanoes in the Auckland Volcanic Field in Auckland, New Zealand, and is located in Onehunga. Its 300 m wide, sediment-filled explosion (maar) crater was used as a boat harbour in early European times and known as Geddes Basin. It was reclaimed in the 1930s and made a sports ground, named Gloucester Park in 1935 after the visit to New Zealand by the Duke of Gloucester in that year.
Onehunga Harbour Road Bridge
The Onehunga Harbour Road Bridge is a walking and cycling bridge over Onehunga Harbour Road, a heavily trafficked road at the southwestern edge of Onehunga, New Zealand. The bridge provides easy and safe access from Onehunga to both the Waikaraka Cycleway running west-east, and Old Mangere Bridge to the south, which in turn links over the Mangere Inlet mouth of the Manukau Harbour. The bridge is 3.5m wide, and distinguished by its sweeping, curved structure.
New Zealand College of Chiropractic
The New Zealand College of Chiropractic is located in Mt Wellington, Auckland, NZ.