Queen Street, Auckland
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Queen Street is the major commercial thoroughfare in the Auckland CBD, Auckland, New Zealand's main population centre. The northern end is at Queens Wharf on the Auckland waterfront, adjacent to the Britomart Transport Centre and the Downtown Ferry Terminal. The road is close to straight, the southern end being almost three kilometres away in a south-southwesterly direction on the Karangahape Road ridge, close to the residential suburbs in the interior of the Auckland isthmus.
View of Queen Street looking south from Fort Street, 2022
Queen Street (c.1889); painting by Jacques Carabain
Looking from Victoria Street East (1880s) across Queen Street (left to right centre) along the south side of Victoria Street West (right)
Lower Queen Street in 1919, with trams, cars and horse-drawn cabs visible.
Auckland CBD
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The Auckland Central Business District (CBD), or Auckland city centre, is the geographical and economic heart of the Auckland metropolitan area. It is the area in which Auckland was established in 1840, by William Hobson on land gifted by mana whenua hapū Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei. It is New Zealand's leading financial hub, and the centre of the country's economy; the GDP of the Auckland Region was NZD$139 billion in the year ending September 2023.
Skyline of the CBD as seen from Devonport
The Auckland waterfront with Māori waka and the original St Paul's Church building above Point Britomart, painted in 1852.
The Dilworth Building, one of the few remaining stately older buildings along Queen Street
Aerial view of the CBD