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Muriwai Beach
Auckland · New Zealand
The short version, from the cited sources
A long straight ironsand beach on Auckland's west coast, backed at its southern end by the Otakamiro headland and one of the few mainland Australasian gannet colonies, where thousands of birds nest on open rock ledges from August to March.
- Country
- New Zealand (NZ)
- Region
- Oceania
- Sand
- Black ironsand
- Water
- Exposed tasman sea, consistently rough
- Administrative area
- Auckland
- Timezone
- Pacific/Auckland
- Source family
- GeoNames
- Source updated
- 2016-06-22
Names in the record
Muriwai Beach
No alternate names were supplied by the source.
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- Access and accessibility
- Facilities and lifeguards
- Seasonality and crowd pattern
- Current hazards and restrictions
- Live weather, tide and water-quality feeds
Source position
-36.71819, 174.36018
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Direct provenance
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- GeoNames Gazetteer ExtractGeoNames ↗
Beach features T.BCH and T.BCHS from the dated global dump; supplied as-is by GeoNames.
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