The Auckland Harbour Bridge is an eight-lane box truss motorway
bridge over the Waitemata Harbour, joining St Marys Bay in Auckland
with Northcote in North Shore City, New Zealand. The bridge is part
of State Highway 1 and the Auckland Northern Motorway. It is the
second-longest road bridge in New Zealand, and the longest in the
North Island.
The bridge has a length of 1,020 m (3,348 ft), with a main span
of 243.8 m, rising 43.27 m above high water allowing ships access
to the deepwater wharf at the Chelsea Sugar Refinery west of it
(one of the few wharves needing such access west of the bridge, a
proposed Te Atatu port having never been realised).
The bridge is considered an Auckland icon. However, there has
also been criticism of it, from the nickname of 'coathanger' due to
its shape, to complaints that it mimics the Sydney Harbour Bridge
in copyist fashion.
The bridge sees a small number of suicide attempts each year,
with people jumping into the Waitemata Harbour below, and between
one and two people each year dying from the fall. I have done it,
but I had a rubberband attached to my legs!!!!!
Cache is a cammo'd V container not to hard to spot!!!