Henderson is a major suburb of Waitakere City, in the Auckland metropolitan area in the North Island of New Zealand. As at 2003, it has a population of about 15,000. It is located 13 kilometres to the west of Auckland city centre, and two kilometres to the west of the Whau River, a southwestern arm of the Waitemata Harbour. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (589x701, 104 KB)Location of Henderson, New Zealand I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (589x701, 104 KB)Location of Henderson, New Zealand I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Waitakere City is in the west of metropolitan Auckland, New Zealands most populous urban area. ... Schematic map of Auckland. ... North Island The North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, the other being the South Island. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Whau River, despite its name, is actually an estuarial arm of the southwestern Waitemata Harbour, within the Auckland metropolitan area in New Zealand. ... Auckland Harbour Bridge crossing the harbour. ...

The suburb is the centre of the Henderson ward, one of the four administrative divisions of Waitakere City. It was named after early colonial settler Thomas Henderson, who started a timber mill in the area in 1864 to process the kauri trees which were cut from the Henderson Valley, and upstream from the eastern flanks of the Waitakere Ranges. 1864 (MDCCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... Binomial name Agathis australis (D. Don) Loudon The Kauri (Agathis australis) is a coniferous tree native to the northern North Island of New Zealand. ... The Waitakere Ranges are a chain of hills generally running approximately 25 km from north to south generally 25 km west of central Auckland, New Zealand. ...

Henderson features a large shopping and theatre complex, the Australian-owned Westfield West City shopping centre. Waitakere Central, the new multi-million dollar home of the Waitakere City Council sits across the western train line from West City. Henderson train station has recently been expanded to accommodate a second railway track and a bus depot is planned nearby. The public transport hub has been dubbed baby britomart. ... Britomart is a figure in Sir Edmund Spensers courtly epic The Faerie Queene, representing chastity with her resistless spear. ...