Mechanics Bay the bordering headlands. Closest to Point Britomart was Official Bay, so called because many government officials lived there during the 1840s. Almost contiguous with Official Bay was Mechanics Bay. It took its name from its use in housing the labour force the government had brought to construct the new capital. Mechanics Bay contained the mouth of the stream issuing from the springs in the Auckland Domain to the south. The Bay had a broad, flat beach where Māori had long been in the habit of beaching their waka (canoes). Next to Mechanics Bay was St Georges Bay and then Judges
Admiralty Bay (New Zealand) the first individual sea creature protected by law in any country. Admiralty Bay (New Zealand) Admiralty Bay is a large indentation in the northern coast of New Zealand's South Island. It lies close to the northernmost mainland point of the Marlborough Sounds, immediately to the south of D'Urville Island. The bay, one of the larger of numerous bays in the crenellated coast of the sounds, is wide at its mouth and extends south. The peninsula into which it cuts is almost bisected by the bay, with a narrow isthmus only some wide lying between the bay's southernmost extent and Hallam