Mission Bay, New Zealand

Mission Bay is a suburb of Auckland city, in the North Island of New Zealand. It is located on a peninsula seven kilometres to the east of the city centre, close to the shore of the Waitemata Harbour, which lies to the north. To the east is the suburb of St Heliers..

The mouth of the Waitemata is to the immediate northwest of Mission Bay, lying between Bastion Point and North Head, the latter of which is in Devonport.

The suburb and its neighbour, Orakei, achieved national attention in 1977 when Maori protestors occupied vacant land at Bastion Point. Land which had formerly belonged to the Ngati Whatua iwi had been acquired cheaply for public works many decades before, and members of the tribe occupied the land demanding its return. The site was largely returned to the iwi after a long and not entirely bloodless occupation.