Panmure, New Zealand

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Suburb:	Panmure
City:	Auckland City
Island:	North Island
Surrounded by - to the north - to the east - to the south - to the west	Tamaki Tamaki River Tamaki River, Pakuranga Panmure Basin, Mount Wellington

Panmure is a south-eastern suburb of Auckland City, in the North Island of New Zealand. It is located 11 kilometres southeast of the city centre, close to the western banks of the Tamaki River and the northern shore of the Panmure Basin (or Kaiahiku). To the north lies the suburb of Tamaki, and to the west is the cone of Mount Wellington.

One of the portages between the Waitemata Harbour and the Manukau Harbour was here. Maori would beach their waka (canoes) and drag them overland to the other harbour.

Located on the Tamaki River, Panmure was favoured by Felton Mathew to be the new capital of New Zealand. William Hobson, however, decided otherwise and the new town of Auckland arose further to the west along the shores of the Waitemata Harbour. Panmure was an important town and port as it was strategically placed on the narrowest part of the isthmus, and during the New Zealand land wars of the 1860s it became a very busy place. Even after the coming of the railway, Panmure continued as a transport hub — steamers from Auckland enroute to the goldfields in the Coromandel and Firth of Thames would call in here.

Panmure has had a long history as an industrial and residential suburb, and until the 1950s was at the edge of the Auckland urban area. It was only with the replacing of old bridges by more substantial structures in the 1950s that the area of Pakuranga on the opposing banks of the Tamaki River became a suburban part of Auckland.