--- Our House: Albany from the Air ---

This is a view of Albany from the air, looking south. The picture was scanned from a newspaper. The picture would have been taken sometime late 1997. See also the new article on this site for related information. Some items of interest:
o Bottom-left: Site of the new Albany Mega Centre, the major shopping centre with lots of large shops, the largest supermarket in Australasia, a big mall, movie theatres, a water fun park, etc etc.
o Bottom-middle: The North Harbour Stadium and sports fields.
o Bottom-right: The old Albany Village shops.
o Centre and centre-right: Massey University campus. Look for the red roofs. The campus is currently split in two, but it is slowly growing together.
o Centre: Behind the campus, you can see the hill and bush reserve that separates our subdivision from the campus.
o Centre: Beyond the bush, you can see our street and subdivison. Directly above the big red roof on the campus, you can see a road with a green line down the middle; that is Northwood Ave. The satrt of our street is nearly horizontal in this picture, and looks like an incomplete rectangle. Our house is just before the second turn of the road (this picture was taken before our house was built).
o Top-middle: Beyond our subdivision, you can see the North Harbour Industrial Estate, a growing industrial and commercial area.
o Centre left and right: Other subdivisions are also visible: centre-left is Wentworth Park, Clemows Orchard (named after the orchard that used to be there), and StoneEdge, centre-right is The Landing and a new one that I forget the name of, and next to our Northwood sudivision is the Brookfield Park one. Albany really is a growing area!

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