Pre-European Portage Route
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This is the over land route used by pre-european Maori to travel between the two harbours. By dragging their waka [canoes] overland they were able to avoid having to travel by sea all the way north to Cape Reinga and then south again. The use of this route over several generations resulted in a physical rut in the ground, the current Portage road follows this rut between the Manukau harbour and the head of the Tamaki River at Otahuhu. There was another portage route to the West between Karaka Bay and Avondale.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 36°56'11"S 174°50'18"E
- Otahuhu Town Centre 0.4 km
- Sylvia Park [suburb] 3.2 km
- Kerwyn [suburb] 3.4 km
- Highbrook [suburb] 3.6 km
- Pylon Reserve land 3.8 km
- Pylon Reserve Land 4.1 km
- Burswood South [suburb] 4.7 km
- Greenmount [suburb] 5 km
- Ben Lomand Drive Industrial Park 5.8 km
- Talbot Park subdivision 6.4 km
- Westfield [suburb] 0.5 km
- Mt Richmond [suburb] 1.2 km
- Sylvia Park [suburb] 2.3 km
- Southdown [suburb] 2.4 km
- Mangere Inlet 3 km
- Favona [suburb] 3.3 km
- Pakuranga [suburb] 3.8 km
- Penrose [suburb] 3.9 km
- Mount Wellington [suburb] 3.9 km
- Manukau Harbour 18 km