Auckland Domain
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The Auckland Domain, also known as Pukekawa / Auckland Domain, is a large park in Auckland, New Zealand. Consisting of 75 hectares of land, Auckland Domain is the oldest park in the city. Located in the central suburb of Grafton, the parkland is the remains of the explosion crater and most of the surrounding tuff ring of the Pukekawa volcano.
Sculpture Kaitiaki by Fred Graham in Auckland Domain, with the Auckland Museum behind
View across Pukekawa to the Waitematā Harbour, Auckland in the 1860s.
View of the 'Wonderland' with the 'Palace of Industries' at the Auckland Exhibition held in the Domain 1913–1914.
View of Camp Hale in 1943, one of two camps erected in Auckland Domain for US troops in World War II.
Grafton, New Zealand
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Grafton is a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. The suburb is named for the Duke of Grafton, a patron of the first Governor of New Zealand, William Hobson, and the grandfather of a subsequent Governor, Robert FitzRoy. Once known as 'Grafton Heights', denoting its history as a well-off suburb in Auckland's earliest decades.
Hum Salon operating at the Basley-Bush House / Rothesay at 123 Grafton Road, February 2015
One of the many historic houses in Grafton.
The Medical School of Auckland University and two large hospitals bound the north side.
Mt Eden from Outhwaite Park (2015)