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Story: Rock, limestone and clay

White sand bunkers

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White sand bunkers

The brilliant white sand for these bunkers at Titirangi golf course, on the Whangaparāoa Peninsula, has come from a clay pit. A by-product of processing halloysite clay is coarse silica sand – ideal for trapping wayward golf shots.

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Carl Walrond, Rock, limestone and clay – Types of clay, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/5252/white-sand-bunkers (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 2 March 2009.