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{{Short description|Headland in Auckland, New Zealand}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=April 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} [[File:2 Musick Pt.jpg|alt=|thumb|Musick Point Te Naupata from above, emerging from early morning fog]] [[Image:Musick Point Headland Manukau.jpg|thumb|right|Musick Point from the north]] [[File:Musick Memorial Radio Station Auckland NZ 2009.jpg|thumb|right|The radio station building]] '''Musick Point Te Naupata''' ({{Langx|mi|Te Naupata}};<ref name="MANU">[http://www.manukau.govt.nz/default.aspx?id=10401 Manukau Council webpage]{{dead link|date=February 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> officially '''Musick Point / Te Naupata''') is the [[headland]] of the [[peninsula]] that forms the eastern shore of the [[Tāmaki River]] in [[Bucklands Beach]], a suburb of [[Auckland]], New Zealand.<ref name="FISH">{{cite news |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/4/story.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10007654 |title=Fishing: Thank you for the Musick |date=23 January 2005 |work=[[The New Zealand Herald#Herald on Sunday|Herald on Sunday]] |accessdate=27 October 2011}}</ref> In 1942, Musick Point was named after [[Ed Musick]], an [[aviator]] who visited New Zealand in 1937,<ref name="RADIO">[http://www.nzart.org.nz/nzart/Branches/SARC/musick_point_history.htm Musick Point - Early History] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061007100555/http://www.nzart.org.nz/nzart/Branches/SARC/musick_point_history.htm |date=2006-10-07 }} (from the New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitters (NZART) website. Retrieved 2007-10-02.)</ref> although the headland is also known as ''Te Waiarohia'', after an ancient Māori stronghold. Today, it is occupied by a golf club and the Musick Memorial Radio Station. The peninsula itself terminates between the [[Motukorea Channel]] and the [[Tāmaki Strait]] in the [[Waitematā Harbour]], [[Auckland]]. The residential areas of [[Bucklands Beach]] and [[Eastern Beach, New Zealand|Eastern Beach]] lie immediately to the south.
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