Western Springs is a residential suburb in the city of Auckland in the north of New Zealand. It is located four kilometres to the west of the city centre, Auckland CBD. The park is situated to the north of State Highway 16 and the residential suburb is located southeast of the park on the opposite side of State Highway 16.
Willows and the artificial lake in Western Springs Lakeside Te Wai Ōrea, looking east.
Cows grazing at a pond in Western Springs, early 1900s
The tram running between MOTAT's two sites
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Auckland Zoo is a 16.35-hectare (40-acre) zoological garden in Auckland, New Zealand, situated next to Western Springs Park not far from Auckland's central business district. It is run by Auckland Council with the Zoological Society of Auckland as a supporting organisation.
Zoo entrance on Motions Road
Boyd's Animals – This newspaper article was in "The Auckland Weekly News" and is from June 1922, it reads: Wanted – A zoo for Auckland: some of the animals, formerly housed at Onehunga, which are to be destroyed unless the city agrees to purchase them.
Auckland Zoo's elderly female hippopotamus Snorkel, who has since died, in Auckland Zoo's former hippopotamus exhibit.
Ostrich eggs in Auckland Zoo; September 2012