View from Tungutu Point. Photo: Diana Ward

Mahurangi West Regional Park, Auckland

December 2022

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It’s hard not to be waylaid on this short walk when traversing the sheltered bays, bush and farmland of this beautiful park. By Diana Ward

Mahurangi West Regional Park was once farmed by John Sullivan, who immigrated from London and settled in Ōtarawao in 1844. Both he and his son William married local Māori women and for almost a century they and their descendants farmed the land until it was acquired by Auckland Council in 1966, and added to over […]
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