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The Tamaki River or Tamaki Estuary is mostly an estuarial arm and harbour of the Hauraki Gulf, within the city of Auckland in New Zealand.〔(Eastern suburbs: Ōrākei to the Tāmaki River ) (from Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Accessed 2008-06-07.)〕 It extends south for 15 kilometres from its mouth between the suburb of Saint Heliers and the long thin peninsula of Bucklands Beach, which reaches its end at Musick Point. The inlet extends past the suburbs of Glendowie, Wai O Taiki Bay, Point England, Glen Innes, Tamaki, Panmure, and Otahuhu to the west, and Bucklands Beach, Halfmoon Bay, Farm Cove, Sunnyhills and Pakuranga to the east. It has several smaller "tributary arms" which extend from it: the Pakuranga Creek and Otara Creek in the east, and the Otahuhu Creek and Panmure Basin in the west. The Otahuhu Creek forms the eastern shore of the narrowest point on the Auckland isthmus: here it is less than two kilometres to the waters of the Manukau Harbour, an arm of the Tasman Sea. It was originally called Te Wai o Taiki, meaning "The Waters of Taiki". The name Taiki is a shortened form of Taikehu, the name of an ancestor of Ngāi Tai.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tahuna Torea )〕 == History == Portage Road is the location of one of the historical portage overland routes between the two coasts.〔 Here the Maori would beach their waka (canoes) and drag them overland to the other coast, thus avoiding having to paddle around North Cape. A second portage was named Karetu and went between the extreme north-east corner of the Manukau harbour to a bay close to the site of the newest bridge across the Tamaki, about 1 km south of the Panmure basin. The portages made the area of immense strategic importance in both pre-European times and during the early years of European occupation. In 1865, the estuary was first crossed by a steel swing bridge, located at Panmure, to improve connection between Auckland and Howick.The location is 20m to the left of the left hand (Panmure) bridge shown in the photo. The circular base swivel was only removed in the 1980s from the southern shore. Stones and steel had been imported from Australia,〔(Panmure Bridge ) (from Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Accessed 2008-06-07.)〕 possibly reflecting the still very basic nature of industrial construction in the young colony. In the 1890s the mouth of the river was used as a safe anchorage for ships carrying explosives. One such ship, anchored in the mouth of the estuary, caught fire and exploded with loss of life. After this the explosives buoy was moved into a more open area east of Browns Island (Motukorea), where it is still located.〔''New Zealand shipwrecks : over 200 years of disasters at sea''. Ingram, Charles W. N., ISBN 978-1-86971-093-4〕〔Chart of Hauraki Gulf〕 In 1925 a 6ft 2" leopard that had escaped from the Auckland Zoo three weeks earlier was found dead in the Tamaki river by a fishing party in Karaka Bay.〔"An Inglorious End". ''Auckland Star''. Vol. LVI, issue 241, 12 Oct 1925, p 10. (Papers Past)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tamaki River」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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