The island is located at the mouth of Pukaki Creek, directly southeast of Auckland Airport.

The island lies less than five metres (16 ft) above the water level of the Manukau Harbour.

[1] As the island is a part of the Auckland Airport complex, it is inaccessible to the public.

Historically, Tāmaki Māori used the island to collect red ochre.

[3] The surrounding area became farmland after being bought from local Maori, with one of the last families to farm it from 1936-1948 being the Westney family (direct descendants of the Westney family that donated the land the preserved Westney Road Methodist Church sat on from 1856-2007 before it got shifted to another Airport owned site and restored) were market gardeners here and grew all sorts of vegetables and fruits as well as flowers for the markets.