Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Auckland Region
Detourmap lists 57 places in Auckland Region, New Zealand, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Great Barrier Island. 50 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 57
- Oldest
- Highwic 1862
- Little known
- 50 of 57
- Share of New Zealand
- 15%
Auckland Region 57
All 57, best known first.
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4.Waitakere City
Archaeological · 20th century · Notable
Former territorial authority district of New Zealand
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18.Cape Rodney-Okakari Point Marine Reserve
Nature · 20th century · Hidden gem
Marine reserve in New Zealand territorial waters
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55.McNicol Homestead
Archaeological · 19th century · Hidden gem
Historic building in Clevedon, New Zealand
Elsewhere in New Zealand
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Auckland Region?
Great Barrier Island. Largest island near New Zealand's North Island. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Auckland Region?
57: 53 nature & landscapes and 4 archaeological & historic sites. 50 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Auckland Region?
Highwic, dated to 1862. 4 of the 57 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Auckland Region here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Auckland Region if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Auckland Region is a first-level division of New Zealand, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.