Bucklands Beach

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Suburb:	Bucklands Beach
City:	Manukau
Island:	North Island
Surrounded by - to the north - to the east - to the south-east - to the south - to the west	Musick Point Hauraki Gulf Eastern Beach Half Moon Bay Tamaki River, Wai O Taiki Bay

Bucklands Beach is an affluent suburb 13 kilometres west of Auckland's CBD in New Zealand. It's name is derived from Lord Alfred Buckland, who at one stage owned what is now Newmarket and is named so because he owned Bucklands Beach land. It sits at the northern end of a peninsula between the Tamaki River to the west and the Hauraki Gulf to the east. At the peninsula's northernmost point, Musick Point juts into the gulf. Bucklands Beach is a northern suburb of Manukau City which is a part of the Auckland urban area. According to the 2001 census, Bucklands Beach has a population of 2370.