Wide view of North Piha Beach, Auckland west coast, New Zealand.

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North Piha Beach

Piha · New Zealand

Lion Rock rising from the black sand of North Piha Beach, Auckland
Lion Rock from North Piha.

The short version, from the cited sources

North Piha Beach is the northern part of Piha, a coastal settlement in West Auckland on the west coast of the Auckland Region and one of the area's most popular beaches, a major day-trip destination for Aucklanders. Lion Rock rises from the black sand between North Piha and Piha.

Country
New Zealand (NZ)
Region
Oceania
Sand
Black
Administrative area
Auckland
Timezone
Pacific/Auckland
Source family
GeoNames
Source updated
2016-06-22

Names in the record

North Piha Beach

No alternate names were supplied by the source.

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Source position

-36.93820, 174.46019

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Sources behind this record

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  1. GeoNames Gazetteer ExtractGeoNames ↗

    Beach features T.BCH and T.BCHS from the dated global dump; supplied as-is by GeoNames.

    Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 · Retrieved 2026-09-02
  2. Wikipedia beach articlesWikimedia Foundation ↗

    Encyclopedia articles used for the editorial summary of illustrated records; the per-record citation links the specific article.

    Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 · Retrieved 2026-10-04
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