This Sky Tower photo was taken under the glass canopy. The tower is part of the SKYCITY Auckland casino complex, originally built for Harrah's Entertainment.The tower attracts an average of 1,450 visitors per day (over 500,000 per year). The upper portion of the tower contains two restaurants and a cafe — including New Zealand's only revolving restaurant, located 190 m (623.2 ft.) from the ground, which turns 360 degrees once every hour. There is also a brasserie-style buffet located one floor above the main observatory level. It has three observation decks at different heights, each providing 360-degree views of the city. The main observation level at 186 m (610.08 ft.) has 38 mm (1.5") thick glass sections of flooring giving a view straight to the ground.The top observation deck labeled 'Skydeck' sits just below the main antenna at 220 m (721.6 ft.) and gives views of up to 82 km (50.84 miles) in the distance. The tower also features the 'SkyJump', a 192-metre (629.76 ft.)[9] jump from the observation deck, during which a jumper can reach up to 85 km/h (53 mph). The jump is guide-cable-controlled to prevent jumpers from colliding with the tower in case of wind gusts.[10] Climbs into the antenna mast portion (300 m/980 ft heights) are also possible for tour groups,[9] as is a walk around the exterior.[11] - andresalvador's Photos

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PHOTOGRAPHY & WATERCOLORS

The Auckland metropolitan area, in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country. Auckland has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world. In Māori Auckland's names are Tāmaki Makaurau, and the transliterated version of Auckland, Ākarana.

The 2011 Mercer Quality of Living Survey ranked Auckland 3rd equal place in the world on its list, while The Economist's World's Most Livable Cities index of 2011 ranked Auckland in 9th place. In 2010, Auckland was classified as a Beta World City in the World Cities Study Group’s inventory by Loughborough University.

Auckland lies between the Hauraki Gulf of the Pacific Ocean to the east, the low Hunua Ranges to the south-east, the Manukau Harbour to the south-west, and the Waitakere Ranges and smaller ranges to the west and north-west. The central part of the urban area occupies a narrow isthmus between the Manukau Harbour on the Tasman Sea and the Waitemata Harbour on the Pacific Ocean. It is one of the few cities in the world to have harbours on two separate major bodies of water.

This is where Auckland is located in New Zealand.

These photos were taken in January 2012.

Information taken from Wikipedia.

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Spotted this duck at the War Memorial Museum lagoon.

A photo of the Auckland Sky Tower taken from the front of Auckland War Memorial Museum.

The Auckland Domain is home to one of Auckland's main tourist attractions, the Auckland War Memorial Museum, which sits prominently on the crater rim (tuff ring). Several sports fields occupy the floor of the crater, circling to the south of the cone, while the rim opposite the Museum hosts the cricket pavilion and Auckland City Hospital. The Wintergarden, with beautiful glass houses, lie on the north side of the central scoria cone. The fernery has been constructed in an old quarry in part of the cone.The duck ponds lie in the northern sector of the explosion crater, which is breached to the north with a small overflow stream.

This is a frontal photo of the Auckland War Memorial Museum. The slanted blue rectangle is a solid sheet of water flowing over a blue and gold war memorial emblem.

The Auckland War Memorial Museum (or simply the Auckland Museum) is one of New Zealand's most important museums and war memorials. Its collections concentrate on New Zealand history (and especially the history of the Auckland Region), natural history, as well as military history.

The museum is also one of the most iconic Auckland buildings, constructed in the neo-classicist style, and sitting on a grassed plinth (the remains of a dormant volcano) in the Auckland Domain, a large public park close to the Auckland's central business district.

This is the Chinese-New Zealander Monument.

When we were in Auckland, New Zealand the flowers are in bloom. (January 2012)

This is a photo of the Auckland Sky Tower from below at street level.

The Sky Tower is an observation and telecommunications tower located on the corner of Victoria and Federal Streets in the Auckland central business district, Auckland City, New Zealand. It is 328 metres (1,076 ft) tall, as measured from ground level to the top of the mast, making it the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere. Due to its shape and height, especially when compared to the next tallest structures, it has become an iconic structure in Auckland's skyline.

This was taken at the first floor lobby of Auckland's Sky Tower.

This Sky Tower photo was taken under the glass canopy.

The tower is part of the SKYCITY Auckland casino complex, originally built for Harrah's Entertainment.The tower attracts an average of 1,450 visitors per day (over 500,000 per year).

The upper portion of the tower contains two restaurants and a cafe — including New Zealand's only revolving restaurant, located 190 m (623.2 ft.) from the ground, which turns 360 degrees once every hour. There is also a brasserie-style buffet located one floor above the main observatory level. It has three observation decks at different heights, each providing 360-degree views of the city. The main observation level at 186 m (610.08 ft.) has 38 mm (1.5") thick glass sections of flooring giving a view straight to the ground.The top observation deck labeled 'Skydeck' sits just below the main antenna at 220 m (721.6 ft.) and gives views of up to 82 km (50.84 miles) in the distance.

The tower also features the 'SkyJump', a 192-metre (629.76 ft.)[9] jump from the observation deck, during which a jumper can reach up to 85 km/h (53 mph). The jump is guide-cable-controlled to prevent jumpers from colliding with the tower in case of wind gusts.[10] Climbs into the antenna mast portion (300 m/980 ft heights) are also possible for tour groups,[9] as is a walk around the exterior.[11]