Musick Point

Musick Point Te Naupata from above, emerging from early morning fog
Musick Point from the north.
The radio station building.

Musick Point Te Naupata (Māori: Te Naupata;[1] officially Musick Point / Te Naupata) is the headland of the peninsula that forms the eastern shore of the Tāmaki River in Bucklands Beach, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.[2] In 1942, Musick Point was named after Ed Musick, an aviator who visited New Zealand in 1937,[3] although the headland is also known as Te Waiarohia, after an ancient Māori stronghold. Today, it is occupied by a golf club and the Musick Memorial Radio Station.

The peninsula itself terminates between the Motukorea Channel and the Tāmaki Strait in the Waitematā Harbour, Auckland. The residential areas of Bucklands Beach and Eastern Beach lie immediately to the south.

  1. ^ Manukau Council webpage[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "Fishing: Thank you for the Musick". Herald on Sunday. 23 January 2005. Retrieved 27 October 2011.
  3. ^ Musick Point - Early History Archived 2006-10-07 at the Wayback Machine (from the New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitters (NZART) website. Retrieved 2007-10-02.)