Tuamarina
Tuamarina is a small town just north of the Wairau River and a few kilometres from the Cloudy Bay coast in Marlborough, New Zealand. The Tuamarina River flows south through the settlement and joins the Wairau River.Photo: DB Thats-Me, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 237 residents
- Description: locality in Marlborough District, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Tua Marina” and “Tuamarino Village”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tuamarina Cemetery and Wairau memorial.
Tuamarina Cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: Mike Dickison, CC BY 4.0.
Tuamarina Cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in the Marlborough Region of New Zealand. The cemetery predates Omaka Cemetery and has been open to the public for burials since 1866, notwithstanding the burials of twenty two men there in 1843.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Spring Creek and Grovetown.
Spring Creek
Village
Spring Creek is a small town in Marlborough, New Zealand. State Highway 1 runs past the settlement to the west, and the Wairau River flows past to the east. Picton is 22 km to the north, and Blenheim is 6 km to the south. Spring Creek is situated 3 km south of Tuamarina.
Grovetown
Village
Grovetown is a small town in Marlborough, New Zealand. State Highway 1 runs past the settlement to the west, and the Wairau River flows past to the northeast. Spring Creek is about 2.5 km to the north, and Blenheim is about 3.5 km to the south. Grovetown is situated 6 km south of Tuamarina.
Rapaura
Locality
Photo: AnnWoolliams, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rapaura is a locality northwest of Blenheim, New Zealand. The Wairau River flows past to the north. Spring Creek lies to the east. Rapaura consists of a church and a school. It also has high quality land for growing grapes. Rapaura is situated 7 km southwest of Tuamarina.
Tuamarina
- Category: locality
- Location: Marlborough District, Marlborough, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-41.4301° or 41° 25′ 48″ southLongitude
173.96276° or 173° 57′ 46″ eastPopulation
237Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)Open location code
4VCMHX97+X4OpenStreetMap ID
node 2127165657OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2180828Wikidata ID
Q7850617
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Tuamarina” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Tuamarina”
- Dutch: “Tuamarina”
- French: “Tuamarina”
- Malay: “Tuamarina”
- Maori: “Tuamarino”
- Polish: “Tuamarina”
- Turkish: “Tuamarina”
- Ukrainian: “Туамаріна (Нова Зеландія)”
- Ukrainian: “Туамаріна”
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Highlights include Tua Marina / Waikakaho Memorial Hall and Tua Marina School.
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