Mission Bay

Worth seeing in and around Mission Bay

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Kelly Tarlton's Sea Life Aquarium

   Kelly Tarlton's Sea Life Aquarium is a public aquarium opened on 25 January 1985 in Auckland, New Zealand. Located at 23 Tamaki Drive, it was the brainchild of New Zealand marine archaeologist and diver Kelly Tarlton.

   1.6 km · public aquarium in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Colin Maiden Park

   Colin Maiden Park is a New Zealand sports complex in the Auckland suburb of Glen Innes, about 10 kilometres south-east of the Auckland CBD. It is named in honour of Sir Colin Maiden, vice-chancellor of the University of Auckland from 1971 to 1994. There are three grass pitch cricket grounds and other sporting facilities in the park.

   3.3 km · sports ground and park in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Bean Rock Lighthouse

   Bean Rock Lighthouse is a lighthouse situated at the end of a reef in the Waitematā Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand. It is the only remaining example in New Zealand of a wooden cottage-style lighthouse, and it is one of only a few remaining worldwide.

   2.4 km · lighthouse in New Zealand · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Ngahue Reserve

   Ngahue Reserve is a multi-purpose stadium in the suburb of St Johns in Auckland, New Zealand. It is used for association football matches and is the home of Oceania Football Confederation.

   3.1 km · park in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia
5. 05
   St Stephen's Chapel

   The St Stephen's Chapel is a historic Neo-Gothic Anglican chapel and associated churchyard located in Judges Bay, Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand, and registered as a category 1 building with Heritage New Zealand.

   3.8 km · Historic church building in Parnell, New Zealand · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Torpedo Bay Navy Museum

   The Torpedo Bay Navy Museum is the official museum of the Royal New Zealand Navy. Located in Devonport, Auckland, it opened in 2010 to replace an earlier naval museum.

   3.5 km · navy museum in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Barfoot & Thompson Stadium

   Barfoot & Thompson Stadium, is a New Zealand venue for sports and entertainment events in Kohimarama, Auckland, New Zealand. The name sponsorship by Barfoot & Thompson, a leading real estate company, began in 2018.

   900 m · Stadium in New Zealand · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Auckland Hebrew Congregation

   The Auckland Hebrew Congregation is a Modern Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 514 Remuera Road in Remuera, a suburb of Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand. The congregation was previously located at University House as the Princes Street Synagogue from 1885 before relocating to a larger building on Greys Avenue in 1968.

   3.8 km · synagogue in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Devonport Library

   Devonport Library is a public library located in Windsor Reserve, Devonport, New Zealand. The library is part of the Auckland Council Libraries library system.

   4 km · library in Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Churchill Park

    Churchill Park is a 40-hectare park in the Auckland suburb of Glendowie, in New Zealand. It was named after Winston Churchill upon the park's creation in 1945, and lies on the eastern side of the Auckland isthmus towards the Tāmaki River.

    3.9 km · park in Glendowie, suburb of Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia

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Getting to Mission Bay

Airports

Auckland (AKL), 18 km

Stations

Ōrākei railway station, 2.1 km · Meadowbank railway station, 1.6 km · Glen Innes railway station, 3.3 km · Torpedo Bay, 3.5 km

• Wellington → Mission Bay

  493 km · quickest by air, 4h 27m · NZ$170–270
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• Christchurch → Mission Bay

  766 km · quickest by air, 5h 3m · NZ$210–330
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• Queenstown → Mission Bay

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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Mission Bay. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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