Portal:New Zealand/Selected picture/Week 44, 2006

Sunset at Te Henga (Bethells Beach), West of Auckland, New Zealand.
Sunset at Te Henga (Bethells Beach), West of Auckland, New Zealand.

Te Henga (Bethells Beach) is a coastal community located in the north of the North Island, New Zealand. The Māori name Te Henga, meaning sand, originally applied to a wide area of the lower Waitakere River valley, but in 1976 the New Zealand Geographic Board changed the name of the beach from Bethells Beach to Te Henga (Bethells Beach).