titirangi

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Picturesque suburb of houses scattered through the southern Waitākere Range, between Glen Eden and Laingholm. On the fringes of Auckland, for a long time Titirangi had a reputation for bohemianism, and it is still home to many artists.

Meaning of place name
Titi: long streaks of cloud; rangi: sky; poetically rendered Fringe of heaven. It is believed that Rakataura, the tohunga on the Tainui conoe, decided upon the name Titirangi. It commemoriated a mountain of the same name in Hawaiki.