Port Albert, Auckland Map

About Port Albert, Auckland

Port Albert is a locality in the Auckland Region of New Zealand. It sits at an elevation of around 40 m above sea level. It lies approximately 70 km north-northwest of Auckland, the regional capital. Port Albert is located at 36.2667°S, 174.4500°E. It observes New Zealand Time (NZST/NZDT).

Port Albert rests on a gentle slope, its buildings a scattering of weathered timber and corrugated iron that seem to have grown organically from the rich, dark earth. It lies 60.6 km south of Whangarei (from Whangarei: bearing 169°T), and is situated 6.3 km west-north-west of Wellsford. Rolling farmland stretches inland, a patchwork of green paddies and the occasional stand of native bush, while the air carries a faint, briny tang from the distant Hargreaves Basin. The Topuni River, a modest waterway, meanders through the landscape, its banks often fringed with reeds and willows, reflecting the soft New Zealand sky.

This is a place where the rhythm of the tides still influences the day, though the boats that once plied the waters are now fewer, their nets hung to dry like forgotten prayers. Historically, Port Albert was a small but active port, a gateway for timber and agricultural produce, its early settlers drawn by the promise of the land and the accessibility offered by the waterways. Today, the economy leans towards dairy farming and horticulture, with the surrounding fields yielding their bounty under the watchful eye of the Tawhitikahu Ridge, a distant, hazy outline on the horizon. The quiet hum of tractors and the distant bleating of sheep are the dominant sounds, a testament to a life lived close to the land, a quiet continuity in the face of passing years.

About This Port Albert Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Port Albert, Auckland, New Zealand at coordinates -36.26667, 174.45. Use the Map and Satellite buttons to switch views, the plus and minus buttons to zoom, and Fullscreen to fill the screen.

Search Maps opens a second, independent map with four things the embedded map cannot do. It searches OpenStreetMap for any New Zealand town, suburb or landmark by name. It offers LINZ topographic maps as a base layer — the official Topo250 and Topo50 sheets, switching scale automatically as you zoom, and the standard reference for tramping, hunting and back-country travel. It offers LINZ aerial imagery down to 5cm resolution in urban areas. And it can take a single GPS fix from your device and report your position as both an NZTM2000 grid reference and plain latitude and longitude — the grid reference being what New Zealand search and rescue services work from. Map tiles require mobile coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map itself cannot load.

My Location & Navigate starts the vector-tile navigator: live turn-by-turn driving directions from your current position to any destination, with spoken guidance, lane hints and automatic re-routing.

Live weather conditions with current observations and a 7-day forecast are powered by Open-Meteo. Real-time New Zealand and world news feeds keep the page current, while an editorial description provides background on Port Albert.

Port Albert sits within the Auckland Region. Location data is drawn from the GeoNames geographical database and verified by coordinates, ensuring the correct Port Albert is identified even where the name is shared across multiple New Zealand localities.