| Suburb: | Orakei |
| City: | Auckland City |
| Island: | North Island |
Surrounded by
- to the north
- to the east
- to the south
- to the west
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Waitemata Harbour, Mission Bay
Kohimarama
Meadowbank, Orakei Basin
Hobson Bay
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Orakei is a suburb of Auckland city, in the North Island of New Zealand. It is located on a peninsula five kilometres to the east of the city centre, close to the shore of the Waitemata Harbour, which lies to the north , and Hobson Bay and the Orakei Basin, two arms of the Waitemata, which lie to the west and south. To the east are the suburbs of Kohimarama and Mission Bay.
The mouth of the Waitemata is to the immediate north of Orakei, lying between Bastion Point and North Head, the latter of which is in Devonport.
The suburb achieved national attention in 1977 when Maori protestors occupied vacant land at Bastion Point. Land which had formerly belonged to the Ngati Whatua iwi had been acquired cheaply for public works many decades before, and members of the tribe occupied the land demanding its return. The site was largely returned to the iwi after a long and not entirely bloodless occupation.
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