Papatoetoe

Papatoetoe is a suburb in Auckland, New Zealand. One of the bigger suburbs of the place usually known as South Auckland, it's far located to the northwest of Manukau Central, and 18 kilometres southeast of Auckland CBD. Papatoetoe is a Māori call, which may be loosely translated as 'undulating vicinity wherein the toetoe is the foremost function', making it named after the 'Prince of Wales's feather' which grew abundantly inside the swampy parts of the region. Owing to a few confusion over the spelling, the place became known as Papatoitoi for decades. People have lived in the Papatoetoe area for nearly the complete time of human settlement in New Zealand.

For each the original Māori and the first English settlers, the Papatoetoe region became handily near the narrowest factors between Auckland's two fantastic harbours, wherein waka might be ported over land. It became additionally rich in fertile soil. Inlets run from Papatoetoe eastward to the Waitematā Harbour and westward to the Manukau Harbour. Thus for travellers beyond and present the routes south to the Waikato River and the north to the Auckland isthmus - Tamaki-makau-rau Tamaki coveted by means of many - have continually been thru Papatoetoe.