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Waiheke Island

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The largest and most urbanised of the inner islands of the Hauraki Gulf, 17 km from Auckland. Before subsidence created the Firth of Thames several million years ago, the island was part of the Coromandel Peninsula, 15 km east.

Meaning of place name
Wai: water; heke: to ebb, drip or descend: the descending waters