Auckland
[url=http://www.aucklandnz.com/]Auckland[/url] is the largest metropolitan area in both [wiki=653884e6f7937fb001488584248708db]Polynesia[/wiki] and [wiki=c51ed580ea5e20c910d951f692512b4d]New Zealand[/wiki], with a population of around 1.5 million people. It is in the northern half of the [wiki=2299c1c30aefa80519f4b0eee7127665]North Island[/wiki], on a narrow isthmus of land that joins the [wiki=986988959b1df938355b92dfb311750e]Northland[/wiki] peninsula to the rest of the North Island.