Te Atatu is the name of two suburbs in Waitakere, one of the four cities that make up the Auckland urban area in northern New Zealand: Te Atatu Peninsula and Te Atatu South. They are located next to each other some 10 kilometres to the west of the Auckland city centre. Waitakere City is in the west of metropolitan Auckland, New Zealands most populous urban area. ... Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest urban area in New Zealand. ...

Formerly known as Te Atatu North, the suburb of Te Atatu Peninsula lies, as the name suggests, on a small peninsula. It is located at the western extremity of the Waitemata Harbour, and is formed by the Henderson Creek, an estuarial arm of the harbour, which extends southwest from the Harbour itself. The peninsula thius formed is four kilometres in length and two kilometres in width, and is joined to the main part of the North Island at its southern end. Auckland Harbour Bridge crossing the Waitemata Harbour Waitemata Harbour is the main access by sea to Auckland, New Zealand. ... Estuaries and coastal waters are among the most productive ecosystems on Earth, providing numerous ecological, economic, cultural, and aesthetic benefits and services. ... The North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, the other being the South Island. ...

Te Atatu South is sited at the point where the peninsula meets the rest of the island.

These two suburbs were relatively rural areas until the 1950s when the first stages of the Northwestern motorway (State Highway 16) were opened along the coast of the Waitemata. This encouraged suburban settlements to the west of Auckland, and Te Atatu grew rapidly as a result. Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium Events and trends Technology United States tests the first fusion bomb. ... The New Zealand State Highway network is shown by the red lines The New Zealand State Highway network is a collection of roads covering the North and South Island. ...

The Te Atatu electorate, which covers both suburbs, is served in New Zealand Parliament by Chris Carter, New Zealand's first openly gay Cabinet Minister. In politics, an electorate is the group of entities entitled to vote in an election. ... Christopher Joseph Carter is a New Zealand politician and a member of Cabinet. ... Gay, in addition to meaning happy, also means, simplistically, preferring the same sex in current usage, though to tie down the word to a specific cultural meaning might be to misrespresent a huge community of individuals who find themselves described by the word gay. The term gay, or lesbian for... The New Zealand Cabinet is, in practice, the highest body of the New Zealand governments executive branch. ...