Rangitoto College is a state coeducational secondary school, located on the North Shore of Auckland, New Zealand. Serving years 9 to 13, Rangitoto has a school roll of 3,696 as of February 2024, making it the largest "brick-and-mortar" school in New Zealand. Patrick Gale is the current principal.
View from the playing fields to Rangitoto Island
The maths building of Rangitoto College
East Coast Bays is a string of small suburbs that form the northernmost part of the North Shore, part of the contiguous Auckland metropolitan area in New Zealand. The suburbs line the north-east coast of the city along the shore of the Hauraki Gulf and Rangitoto Channel. They include, from north to south, Long Bay, Torbay, Waiake Bay, Browns Bay, Rothesay Bay, Murrays Bay, Mairangi Bay, Campbells Bay and Castor Bay. Most of the East Coast Bays are covered under the East Coast Bays subdivision of the Hibiscus and Bays local board area.
View of the East Coast Bays south from Browns Bay in 1959
Eroding Waitemata Group sandstone cliffs at Campbells Bay
Until the 1850s, Long Bay (Te Oneroa ō Kahu) was one of the most densely settled areas of the North Shore by Tāmaki Māori
Steamer ferry at Waiake Beach, ca 1910