Manukau

American  

[mah-nuh-kau] / ˈmɑ nəˌkaʊ /

noun

1. a city on N North Island, in New Zealand.

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Manukau British  

/ ˈmɑːnʊˌkaʊ /

noun

1. a city in New Zealand, on Manukau Harbour (an inlet of the Tasman Sea) near Auckland on NW North Island. Pop: 326 200 (2004 est)

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Manukau

Owners gathered at Manukau Stadium, Auckland, for one of the final meets in June.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Auckland is built on an isthmus between the Waitemata Harbor on the Pacific Ocean and Manukau Harbor on the Tasman Sea.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2023

On Wednesday, Peter Watson, chief medical officer in Counties Manukau, told reporters that New Zealand had ordered 1,292 square feet of skin from tissue banks in the United States to help treat the patients.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2019

“The health system is equipped to respond to this, but in terms of the size, these are very unusual events,” said Dr. John Kenealy, clinical director of surgery at Counties Manukau in New Zealand.

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2019

The plains of Papakura and Drury on the eastern shore of Manukau Harbour are part of a rolling country, and are but little above the level of the sea.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer

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