Swanson is an outlying suburb of West Auckland, New Zealand and is located west of Henderson, surrounded by the Waitākere Ranges. Developing as a service centre for the kauri logging and gumdigging tr
The town centre of Swanson
The Swanson School, which opened in 1888, was an early centre for the Swanson village community
Royal New Zealand Air Force servicemen undergoing bush warfare training at the RNZAF Weapons Training School in Swanson
Waiatarua is a small settlement near the top of the Waitākere Ranges in West Auckland, close to the junction of Scenic Drive, West Coast Road and Piha Road to Piha and runs east until the junction of
Waiatarua and Oratia looking towards Auckland, from the Waitākere Ranges